Incorporating network based protein complex discovery into automated model construction

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Title: Incorporating network based protein complex discovery into automated model construction
Authors: Scherer, Paul, Trȩbacz, Maja, Simidjievski, Nikola, Shams, Zohreh, Terre, Helena Andres, Liò, Pietro, Jamnik, Mateja
Publication Year: 2020
Collection: Computer Science
Quantitative Biology
Statistics
Subject Terms: Quantitative Biology - Molecular Networks, Computer Science - Machine Learning, Computer Science - Social and Information Networks, Statistics - Machine Learning
More Details: We propose a method for gene expression based analysis of cancer phenotypes incorporating network biology knowledge through unsupervised construction of computational graphs. The structural construction of the computational graphs is driven by the use of topological clustering algorithms on protein-protein networks which incorporate inductive biases stemming from network biology research in protein complex discovery. This structurally constrains the hypothesis space over the possible computational graph factorisation whose parameters can then be learned through supervised or unsupervised task settings. The sparse construction of the computational graph enables the differential protein complex activity analysis whilst also interpreting the individual contributions of genes/proteins involved in each individual protein complex. In our experiments analysing a variety of cancer phenotypes, we show that the proposed methods outperform SVM, Fully-Connected MLP, and Randomly-Connected MLPs in all tasks. Our work introduces a scalable method for incorporating large interaction networks as prior knowledge to drive the construction of powerful computational models amenable to introspective study.
Comment: 7 Pages, 2 Figures
Document Type: Working Paper
Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2010.00387
Accession Number: edsarx.2010.00387
Database: arXiv
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