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ArticleCell reports methods2025

Inferring gene regulatory networks by hypergraph generative model.

Guangxin Su, Hanchen Wang, Ying Zhang, Marc R Wilkins, Pablo F Canete, Di Yu, Yang Yang, Wenjie Zhang

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Article in Cell reports methods, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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  1. Inferring Gene Regulatory Networks in Stem Cells: Methods and Applications.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2027
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  6. Gene Regulatory Network Inference from Pseudotime-Ordered scRNA-seq Data via Time-Lagged Divergence Measures.Bioinformatics research and applications : ... international symposium, ISBRA ... proceedings. ISBRA (Conference) · 2025
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Guangxin SuSchool of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia; ARC Centre of Excellence for the Mathematical Analysis of Cellular Systems (MACSYS), Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Hanchen WangARC Centre of Excellence for the Mathematical Analysis of Cellular Systems (MACSYS), Melbourne, VIC, Australia; Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute, The University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Ying ZhangSchool of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Zhejiang, China.
Marc R WilkinsARC Centre of Excellence for the Mathematical Analysis of Cellular Systems (MACSYS), Melbourne, VIC, Australia; Systems Biology Initiative, School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Pablo F CaneteFrazer Institute, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Behaviour Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
Di YuFrazer Institute, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Behaviour Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia; Ian Frazer Centre for Children's Immunotherapy Research, Child Health Research Centre, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Behaviour Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
Yang YangFrazer Institute, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Behaviour Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia. Electronic address: yang.yang1@uq.edu.au.
Wenjie ZhangSchool of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia; ARC Centre of Excellence for the Mathematical Analysis of Cellular Systems (MACSYS), Melbourne, VIC, Australia. Electronic address: wenjie.zhang@unsw.edu.au.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We present hypergraph variational autoencoder (HyperG-VAE), a Bayesian deep generative model that leverages hypergraph representation to model single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data. The model features a cell encoder with a structural equation model to account for cellular heterogeneity and construct gene regulatory networks (GRNs) alongside a gene encoder using hypergraph self-attention to identify gene modules. The synergistic optimization of encoders via a decoder improves GRN inference, single-cell clustering, and data visualization, as validated by benchmarks. HyperG-VAE effectively uncovers gene regulation patterns and demonstrates robustness in downstream analyses, as shown in B cell development data from bone marrow. Gene set enrichment analysis of overlapping genes in predicted GRNs confirms the gene encoder's role in refining GRN inference. Offering an efficient solution for scRNA-seq analysis and GRN construction, HyperG-VAE also holds the potential for extending GRN modeling to temporal and multimodal single-cell omics.

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Computational BiologyGene Regulatory NetworksAlgorithmsAnimalsBayes TheoremHumansModels, GeneticSequence Analysis, RNASingle-Cell AnalysisCP: Systems biologygene regulatory networkshypergraph representation learningscRNA-seq

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PMID40220759
PMCPMC12256954

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