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ArticlePatterns (New York, N.Y.)2023

Biology-inspired graph neural network encodes reactome and reveals biochemical reactions of disease.

Joshua G Burkhart, Guanming Wu, Xubo Song, Francesco Raimondi, Shannon McWeeney, Melissa H Wong, Youping Deng

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Article in Patterns (New York, N.Y.), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10citing papers in PubMed
2.2field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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10 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. Application of a metabolic network-based graph neural network for the identification of toxicant-induced perturbations.Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology · 2025
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  8. Pathway-guided architectures for interpretable AI in biological research.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Joshua G BurkhartDepartment of Quantitative Health Sciences, University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine, Honolulu, HI 96813, USA.
Guanming WuDivision of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA.
Xubo SongDepartment of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA.
Francesco RaimondiBIO@SNS, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, 56126 Pisa, Italy.
Shannon McWeeneyDivision of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA.
Melissa H WongDepartment of Cell, Developmental, and Cancer Biology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR 97201, USA.
Youping DengDepartment of Quantitative Health Sciences, University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine, Honolulu, HI 96813, USA.
Oregon Health & Science University · USUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa · USScuola Normale Superiore · IT

Funding

UH Hilo COP A&RP20GM103466 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT MANOA · PI HELEN C TURNER · 2012 to 2026
$60.3M
University of Guam/Cancer Research Center of Hawaii Partnership (2 of 2)U54CA143728 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF GUAM · PI RACHAEL T LEON GUERRERO · 2009 to 2026
$20.1M
University of Guam/Cancer Research Center of Hawaii Partnership (1 of 2)U54CA143727 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT MANOA · PI LYNNE R WILKENS · 2009 to 2026
$19.1M
Tracking and Evaluation CoreU54GM138062 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT MANOA · PI SY, ANGELA U · 2021 to 2025
$15.5M
NCI NIH HHS U54 CA143727NCI NIH HHS U54 CA143728NIGMS NIH HHS P20 GM103466NIGMS NIH HHS U54 GM138062
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Functional heterogeneity of healthy human tissues complicates interpretation of molecular studies, impeding precision therapeutic target identification and treatment. Considering this, we generated a graph neural network with Reactome-based architecture and trained it using 9,115 samples from Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx). Our graph neural network (GNN) achieves adjusted Rand index (ARI) = 0.7909, while a Resnet18 control model achieves ARI = 0.7781, on 370 held-out healthy human tissue samples from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), despite the Resnet18 using over 600 times the parameters. Our GNN also succeeds in separating 83 healthy skin samples from 95 lesional psoriasis samples, revealing that upregulation of 26S- and NUB1-mediated degradation of NEDD8, UBD, and their conjugates is central to the largest perturbed reaction network component in psoriasis. We show that our results are not discoverable using traditional differential expression and hypergeometric pathway enrichment analyses yet are supported by separate human multi-omics and small-molecule mouse studies, suggesting future molecular disease studies may benefit from similar GNN analytical approaches.

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biochemical reactiondifferential gene expressiongraph neural networkhealthy tissuehuman reactomemolecular disease studypathway enrichment analysisreaction network

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PMID37521042
PMCPMC10382942
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