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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2023

Joint embedding of biological networks for cross-species functional alignment.

Lechuan Li, Ruth Dannenfelser, Yu Zhu, Nathaniel Hejduk, Santiago Segarra, Vicky Yao

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Article in Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2023. 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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Lechuan LiDepartment of Computer Science, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-9652-7074
Ruth DannenfelserDepartment of Computer Science, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, United States.
Yu ZhuDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, United States.
Nathaniel HejdukDepartment of Computer Science, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, United States.
Santiago SegarraDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, United States.
Vicky YaoDepartment of Computer Science, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, United States.
Rice University · US

Funding

Generation of Human iPSC-derived Entorhinal Cortex Neurons for Probing Selective Neuronal Vulnerability in Alzheimer's DiseaseRF1AG054564 · NIA · ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY · PI ROUSSARIE, JEAN-PIERRE · 2017 to 2019
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NIA NIH HHS RF1 AG054564
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

motivationModel organisms are widely used to better understand the molecular causes of human disease. While sequence similarity greatly aids this cross-species transfer, sequence similarity does not imply functional similarity, and thus, several current approaches incorporate protein-protein interactions to help map findings between species. Existing transfer methods either formulate the alignment problem as a matching problem which pits network features against known orthology, or more recently, as a joint embedding problem.

resultsWe propose a novel state-of-the-art joint embedding solution: Embeddings to Network Alignment (ETNA). ETNA generates individual network embeddings based on network topological structure and then uses a Natural Language Processing-inspired cross-training approach to align the two embeddings using sequence-based orthologs. The final embedding preserves both within and between species gene functional relationships, and we demonstrate that it captures both pairwise and group functional relevance. In addition, ETNA's embeddings can be used to transfer genetic interactions across species and identify phenotypic alignments, laying the groundwork for potential opportunities for drug repurposing and translational studies. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: https://github.com/ylaboratory/ETNA.

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Drug RepositioningProtein Interaction MapsHumansNatural Language Processing

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PMID37632792
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