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ArticleCommunications biology2023

A self-supervised deep learning method for data-efficient training in genomics.

Hüseyin Anil Gündüz, Martin Binder, Xiao-Yin To, René Mreches, Bernd Bischl, Alice C McHardy, Philipp C Münch, Mina Rezaei

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Article in Communications biology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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Hüseyin Anil GündüzDepartment of Statistics, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany.
Martin BinderDepartment of Statistics, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany.
Xiao-Yin ToDepartment of Statistics, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany.
René MrechesDepartment for Computational Biology of Infection Research, Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, 38124, Braunschweig, Germany.
Bernd BischlDepartment of Statistics, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany.
Alice C McHardyDepartment for Computational Biology of Infection Research, Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, 38124, Braunschweig, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2370-3430
Philipp C MünchDepartment for Computational Biology of Infection Research, Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, 38124, Braunschweig, Germany. philipp.muench@helmholtz-hzi.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3233-9693
Mina RezaeiDepartment of Statistics, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany. mina.rezaei@stat.uni-muenchen.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6994-6345

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Abstract

Deep learning in bioinformatics is often limited to problems where extensive amounts of labeled data are available for supervised classification. By exploiting unlabeled data, self-supervised learning techniques can improve the performance of machine learning models in the presence of limited labeled data. Although many self-supervised learning methods have been suggested before, they have failed to exploit the unique characteristics of genomic data. Therefore, we introduce Self-GenomeNet, a self-supervised learning technique that is custom-tailored for genomic data. Self-GenomeNet leverages reverse-complement sequences and effectively learns short- and long-term dependencies by predicting targets of different lengths. Self-GenomeNet performs better than other self-supervised methods in data-scarce genomic tasks and outperforms standard supervised training with ~10 times fewer labeled training data. Furthermore, the learned representations generalize well to new datasets and tasks. These findings suggest that Self-GenomeNet is well suited for large-scale, unlabeled genomic datasets and could substantially improve the performance of genomic models.

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PMID37696966
PMCPMC10495322

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