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ArticleNature genetics2023

Benchmarking of deep neural networks for predicting personal gene expression from DNA sequence highlights shortcomings.

Alexander Sasse, Bernard Ng, Anna E Spiro, Shinya Tasaki, David A Bennett, Christopher Gaiteri, Philip L De Jager, Maria Chikina, Sara Mostafavi

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Article in Nature genetics, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 98 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

98 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Alexander Sasse *Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Bernard Ng *Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8688-3873
Anna E Spiro *Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Shinya TasakiRush Alzheimer's Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3656-7394
David A BennettRush Alzheimer's Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA.
Christopher GaiteriRush Alzheimer's Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA.
Philip L De JagerCenter for Translational & Computational Neuroimmunology, Department of Neurology, and the Taub Institute for the Study of Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8057-2505
Maria ChikinaDepartment of Computational and Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. mchikina@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0003-2550-5403
Sara MostafaviPaul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. saramos@cs.washington.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-4698-1177

Funding

SUPPLEMENT TO RUSH ALZHEIMERS DISEASE CENTER COREP30AG010161 · NIA · RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI LEURGANS, SUE E. · 1991 to 2020
$49.1M
EPIDEMIOLOGY OF NEURAL RESERVE AND NEUROBIOLOGY IN AGINGR01AG017917 · NIA · RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI BENNETT, DAVID ALAN · 2001 to 2023
$43.3M
Rush Alzheimer's Disease Research CenterP30AG072975 · NIA · RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI Lisa L Barnes, Julie A. Schneider · 2021 to 2026
$24.7M
RISK FACTORS, PATHOLOGY, AND CLINICAL EXPRESSIONS OF ADR01AG015819 · NIA · RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI BENNETT, DAVID ALAN · 1998 to 2024
$21.4M
NIA NIH HHS P30 AG010161NIA NIH HHS P30 AG072975NIA NIH HHS R01 AG015819NIA NIH HHS R01 AG017917
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Deep learning methods have recently become the state of the art in a variety of regulatory genomic tasks

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