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ArticleScientific reports2024

Inferring gene regulatory networks with graph convolutional network based on causal feature reconstruction.

Ruirui Ji, Yi Geng, Xin Quan

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Article in Scientific reports, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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Ruirui JiSchool of Automation and Information Engineering, Xi 'an University of Technology, No.5, Jinhua South Road, Xi'an, 710048, Shaanxi, China. 19077982@qq.com.
Yi GengSchool of Automation and Information Engineering, Xi 'an University of Technology, No.5, Jinhua South Road, Xi'an, 710048, Shaanxi, China.
Xin QuanSchool of Automation and Information Engineering, Xi 'an University of Technology, No.5, Jinhua South Road, Xi'an, 710048, Shaanxi, China.

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China 61702410
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Inferring gene regulatory networks through deep learning and causal inference methods is a crucial task in the field of computational biology and bioinformatics. This study presents a novel approach that uses a Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) guided by causal information to infer Gene Regulatory Networks (GRN). The transfer entropy and reconstruction layer are utilized to achieve causal feature reconstruction, mitigating the information loss problem caused by multiple rounds of neighbor aggregation in GCN, resulting in a causal and integrated representation of node features. Separable features are extracted from gene expression data by the Gaussian-kernel Autoencoder to improve computational efficiency. Experimental results on the DREAM5 and the mDC dataset demonstrate that our method exhibits superior performance compared to existing algorithms, as indicated by the higher values of the AUPRC metrics. Furthermore, the incorporation of causal feature reconstruction enhances the inferred GRN, rendering them more reasonable, accurate, and reliable.

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AlgorithmsComputational BiologyGene Regulatory NetworksDeep LearningGene Expression ProfilingHumansNeural Networks, ComputerAutoencoderCausal relationshipGene regulatory networkGraph convolutional networkLink prediction

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PMID39266676
PMCPMC11393083

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