Deepfunnet: deep learning for gene functional similarity network construction
2019 IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing …, 2019•ieeexplore.ieee.org
The problem to be addressed in this paper is to construct a gene functional similarity
network using Gene Ontology (GO) annotation data and gene expression data. GO
annotation data include functional information of genes, and they are a reliable source to
measure gene functional similarity. However, a significant portion, about 25% and 58%, of
the human and Arabidopsis genes have no GO term assigned so far. On the other hand,
gene expression data consist of levels of gene activation within a cell at a specific moment …
network using Gene Ontology (GO) annotation data and gene expression data. GO
annotation data include functional information of genes, and they are a reliable source to
measure gene functional similarity. However, a significant portion, about 25% and 58%, of
the human and Arabidopsis genes have no GO term assigned so far. On the other hand,
gene expression data consist of levels of gene activation within a cell at a specific moment …
The problem to be addressed in this paper is to construct a gene functional similarity network using Gene Ontology (GO) annotation data and gene expression data. GO annotation data include functional information of genes, and they are a reliable source to measure gene functional similarity. However, a significant portion, about 25% and 58%, of the human and Arabidopsis genes have no GO term assigned so far. On the other hand, gene expression data consist of levels of gene activation within a cell at a specific moment for all genes. From gene expression data, a co-expression network can be built and used to infer gene function similarity network for GO unknown genes. However, the predicted network based on the co-expression network contains many false positives. DeepFunNet is a new computational method to construct gene functional similarity network for GO unknown genes by strategically utilizing the gene co-expression network. The principle of DeepFunNet is to induce the network construction to select true functional-similarity-edges by propagating known function of a gene to other genes through the co-expression network. To make the propagation step robust, we use level-wise propagation from (GO) known-to-known, known-to-unknown, and unknown-to-unknown gene pairs. DeepFunNet includes a deep learning model for estimating the gene functional similarity of GO unknown genes from neighboring genes. In several experiments, our deep learning model performed better than existing methods.
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