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ArticleAdvanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)2025

Integrating Prior Knowledge Using Transformer for Gene Regulatory Network Inference.

Guangzheng Weng, Patrick Martin, Hyobin Kim, Kyoung Jae Won

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Article in Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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  6. Integrating Prior Knowledge Using Transformer for Gene Regulatory Network Inference.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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4 authors.

Guangzheng WengBiotech Research and Innovation Centre (BRIC), University of Copenhagen, Ole Maaløes Vej 5, Copenhagen, 2200, Denmark.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1422-2830
Patrick MartinDepartment of Computational Biomedicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, 90069, USA.
Hyobin KimDepartment of Computational Biomedicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, 90069, USA.
Kyoung Jae WonDepartment of Computational Biomedicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, 90069, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2924-9630

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Gene regulatory network (GRN) inference, a process of reconstructing gene regulatory rules from experimental data, has the potential to discover new regulatory rules. However, existing methods often struggle to generalize across diverse cell types and account for unseen regulators. Here, this work presents GRNPT, a novel Transformer-based framework that integrates large language model (LLM) embeddings from publicly accessible biological data and a temporal convolutional network (TCN) autoencoder to capture regulatory patterns from single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) trajectories. GRNPT significantly outperforms both supervised and unsupervised methods in inferring GRNs, particularly when training data is limited. Notably, GRNPT exhibits exceptional generalizability, accurately predicting regulatory relationships in previously unseen cell types and even regulators. By combining LLMs ability to distillate biological knowledge from text and deep learning methodologies capturing complex patterns in gene expression data, GRNPT overcomes the limitations of traditional GRN inference methods and enables more accurate and comprehensive understanding of gene regulatory dynamics.

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Computational BiologyGene Regulatory NetworksAlgorithmsDeep LearningHumansSingle-Cell Analysisdeep learninggene regulatory networksinferencelarge language modeltemporal convolutional networktransformer

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PMID39605181
PMCPMC11744656

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