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ArticlePacific Symposium on Biocomputing. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing2019

Shallow Sparsely-Connected Autoencoders for Gene Set Projection.

Maxwell P Gold, Alexander LeNail, Ernest Fraenkel

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Article in Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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Maxwell P GoldDepartment of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 21 Ames St. Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
Alexander LeNailDepartment of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 21 Ames St. Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
Ernest FraenkelDepartment of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 21 Ames St. Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.

Funding

Epigenetic Pathology and Therapy in Huntington's DiseaseR01NS089076 · NINDS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI FRAENKEL, ERNEST, HOUSMAN, DAVID · 2015 to 2024
$4.9M
Graduate Training in Computational and Systems BiologyT32GM087237 · NIGMS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI BURGE, CHRISTOPHER B · 2009 to 2023
$4.6M
Embryonal Brain Tumor NetworksU01CA184898 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI FRAENKEL, ERNEST, MESIROV, JILL P. · 2014 to 2019
$3.6M
NCI NIH HHS U01 CA184898NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM087237NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS089076
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

When analyzing biological data, it can be helpful to consider gene sets, or predefined groups of biologically related genes. Methods exist for identifying gene sets that are differential between conditions, but large public datasets from consortium projects and single-cell RNA-Sequencing have opened the door for gene set analysis using more sophisticated machine learning techniques, such as autoencoders and variational autoencoders. We present shallow sparsely-connected autoencoders (SSCAs) and variational autoencoders (SSCVAs) as tools for projecting gene-level data onto gene sets. We tested these approaches on single-cell RNA-Sequencing data from blood cells and on RNA-Sequencing data from breast cancer patients. Both SSCA and SSCVA can recover known biological features from these datasets and the SSCVA method often outperforms SSCA (and six existing gene set scoring algorithms) on classification and prediction tasks.

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Gene Regulatory NetworksBlood CellsBreast NeoplasmsComputational BiologyFemaleGene Expression ProfilingHumansNeural Networks, ComputerSequence Analysis, RNASingle-Cell AnalysisSupervised Machine LearningSurvival Analysisautoencodergene setsingle-cell RNA-Sequencingvariational autoencoder

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PMCPMC6417803

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