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    Functional predictability of universal gene circuits in diverse microbial hosts

    Chenrui QinTong XuXuejin ZhaoYeqing Zong...
    129-140页
    查看更多>>摘要：Although the principles of synthetic biology were initially established in model bacteria,microbial producers,extremophiles and gut microbes have now emerged as valuable prokaryotic chassis for biological engi-neering.Extending the host range in which designed circuits can function reliably and predictably presents a major challenge for the concept of synthetic biology to materialize.In this work,we systematically charac-terized the cross-species universality of two transcriptional regulatory modules—the T7 RNA polymerase activator module and the repressors module—in three non-model microbes.We found striking linear relation-ships in circuit activities among different organisms for both modules.Parametrized model fitting revealed host non-specific parameters defining the universality of both modules.Lastly,a genetic NOT gate and a band-pass filter circuit were constructed from these modules and tested in non-model organisms.Combined models employing host non-specific pa-rameters were successful in quantitatively predicting circuit behaviors,underscoring the potential of universal biological parts and predictive modeling in synthetic bioengineering.
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    GCARDTI:Drug-target interaction prediction based on a hybrid mechanism in drug SELFIES

    Yinfei FengYuanyuan ZhangZengqian DengMimi Xiong...
    141-154页
    查看更多>>摘要：The prediction of the interaction between a drug and a target is the most critical issue in the fields of drug development and repurposing.However,there are still two challenges in current deep learning research:(i)the structural information of drug molecules is not fully explored in most drug target studies,and the previous drug SMILES does not correspond well to effective drug molecules and(ii)exploration of the potential relationship between drugs and targets is in need of improvement.In this work,we use a new and better representation of the effective molecular graph structure,SELFIES.We propose a hybrid mechanism framework based on convolu-tional neural network and graph attention network to capture multi-view feature information of drug and target molecular structures,and we aim to enhance the ability to capture interaction sites between a drug and a target.In this study,our experiments using two different datasets show that the GCARDTI model outperforms a variety of different model algorithms on different metrics.We also demonstrate the accuracy of our model through two case studies.
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    DDI-Transform:A neural network for predicting drug-drug interaction events

    Jiaming SuYing Qian
    155-163页
    查看更多>>摘要：Drug-drug interaction(DDI)event prediction is a challenging problem,and accurate prediction of DDI events is critical to patient health and new drug development.Recently,many machine learning-based techniques have been proposed for predicting DDI events.However,most of the existing methods do not effectively integrate the multidimensional features of drugs and provide poor mitigation of noise to get effective feature information.To address these limitations,we propose a DDI-Transform neural network framework for DDI event prediction.In DDI-Transform,we design a drug structure information feature extraction module and a drug bind-protein feature extraction module to obtain multidimensional feature information.A stack of DDI-Transform layers in the DDI-Transform network module are then used for adaptive learning,thus adaptively selecting the effective feature information for prediction.The results show that DDI-Transform can accurately predict DDI events and outperform the state-of-the-art models.Results on different scale datasets confirm the robustness of the method.
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    Measuring drug similarity using drug-drug interactions

    Ji LvGuixia LiuYuan JuHouhou Huang...
    164-172页
    查看更多>>摘要：Combination therapy is a promising approach to address the challenge of antimicrobial resistance,and computational models have been proposed for predicting drug-drug interactions.Most existing models rely on drug simi-larity measures based on characteristics such as chemical structure and the mechanism of action.In this study,we focus on the network structure itself and propose a drug similarity measure based on drug-drug interaction networks.We explore the potential applications of this measure by combining it with unsupervised learning and semi-supervised learning ap-proaches.In unsupervised learning,drugs can be grouped based on their interactions,leading to almost monochromatic group-group interactions.In addition,drugs within the same group tend to have similar mechanisms of action(MoA).In semi-supervised learning,the similarity measure can be utilized to construct affinity matrices,enabling the prediction of unknown drug-drug interactions.Our method exceeds existing approaches in terms of performance.Overall,our experiments demonstrate the effectiveness and practicability of the proposed similarity measure.On the one hand,when combined with clustering algorithms,it can be used for functional annotation of compounds with unknown MoA.On the other hand,when combined with semi-supervised graph learning,it enables the prediction of unknown drug-drug interactions.
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    A feature extraction framework for discovering pan-cancer driver genes based on multi-omics data

    Xiaomeng XueFeng LiJunliang ShangLingyun Dai...
    173-181页
    查看更多>>摘要：The identification of tumor driver genes facilitates accurate cancer diagnosis and treatment,playing a key role in precision oncology,along with gene signaling,regulation,and their interaction with protein complexes.To tackle the challenge of distinguishing driver genes from a large number of genomic data,we construct a feature extraction framework for discovering pan-cancer driver genes based on multi-omics data(mutations,gene expres-sion,copy number variants,and DNA methylation)combined with protein-protein interaction(PPI)networks.Using a network propagation algorithm,we mine functional information among nodes in the PPI network,focusing on genes with weak node information to represent specific cancer infor-mation.From these functional features,we extract distribution features of pan-cancer data,pan-cancer TOPSIS features of functional features using the ideal solution method,and SetExpan features of pan-cancer data from the gene functional features,a method to rank pan-cancer data based on the average inverse rank.These features represent the common message of pan-cancer.Finally,we use the lightGBM classification algorithm for gene prediction.Experimental results show that our method outperforms existing methods in terms of the area under the check precision-recall curve(AUPRC)and demonstrates better performance across different PPI net-works.This indicates our framework's effectiveness in predicting potential cancer genes,offering valuable insights for the diagnosis and treatment of tumors.
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    Hierarchical learning of gastric cancer molecular subtypes by integrating multi-modal DNA-level omics data and clinical stratification

    Binyu YangSiying LiuJiemin XieXi Tang...
    182-196页
    查看更多>>摘要：Molecular subtyping of gastric cancer(GC)aims to comprehend its genetic landscape.However,the efficacy of current subtyping methods is hampered by their mixed use of molecular features,a lack of strategy optimization,and the limited availability of public GC datasets.There is a pressing need for a precise and easily adoptable subtyping approach for early DNA-based screening and treatment.Based on TCGA subtypes,we developed a novel DNA-based hierarchical classifier for gastric cancer molecular subtyping(HCG),which employs gene mutations,copy number aberrations,and methylation patterns as predictors.By incorporating the closely related esophageal adenocarcinomas dataset,we expanded the TCGA GC dataset for the training and testing of HCG(n=453).The optimization of HCG was achieved through three hierarchical strategies using Lasso-Logistic regres-sion,evaluated by their overall the area under receiver operating character-istic curve(auROC),accuracy,F1 score,the area under precision-recall curve(auPRC)and their capability for clinical stratification using multivariate survival analysis.Subtype-specific DNA alteration biomarkers were dis-cerned through difference tests based on HCG defined subtypes.Our HCG classifier demonstrated superior performance in terms of overall auROC(0.95),accuracy(0.88),F1 score(0.87)and auPRC(0.86),significantly improving the clinical stratification of patients(overall p-value=0.032).Dif-ference tests identified 25 subtype-specific DNA alterations,including a high mutation rate in the SYNE1,ITGB4,and COL22A1 genes forthe MSI subtype,and hypermethylation of ALS2CL,KIAA0406,and RPRD1B genes for the EBV subtype.HCG is an accurate and robust classifier for DNA-based GC molecular subtyping with highly predictive clinical stratification performance.The training and test datasets,along with the analysis programs of HCG,are accessible on the GitHub website(github.com/LabxSCUT).
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    SimHOEPI:A resampling simulator for generating single nucleotide polymorphism data with a high-order epistasis model

    Yahan LiXinrui CaiJunliang ShangYuanyuan Zhang...
    197-204页
    查看更多>>摘要：Epistasis is a ubiquitous phenomenon in genetics,and is considered to be one of main factors in current efforts to unveil missing heritability of complex diseases.Simulation data is crucial for evaluating epistasis detection tools in genome-wide association studies(GWAS).Existing simulators normally suffer from two limitations:absence of support for high-order epistasis models containing multiple single nucleotide polymorphisms(SNPs),and inability to generate simulation SNP data independently.In this study,we proposed a simulator SimHOEPI,which is capable of calculating pene-trance tables of high-order epistasis models depending on either prevalence or heritability,and uses a resampling strategy to generate simulation data independently.Highlights of SimHOEPI are the preservation of realistic minor allele frequencies in sampling data,the accurate calculation and embedding of high-order epistasis models,and acceptable simulation time.A series of experiments were carried out to verify these properties from different aspects.Experimental results show that SimHOEPI can generate simulation SNP data independently with high-order epistasis models,implying that it might be an alternative simulator for GWAS.
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    A clinical trial termination prediction model based on denoising autoencoder and deep survival regression

    Huamei QiWenhui YangWenqin ZouYuxuan Hu...
    205-214页
    查看更多>>摘要：Effective clinical trials are necessary for understanding medical advances but early termination of trials can result in unnecessary waste of resources.Survival models can be used to predict survival probabilities in such trials.However,survival data from clinical trials are sparse,and DeepSurv cannot accurately capture their effective features,making the models weak in generalization and decreasing their prediction accuracy.In this paper,we propose a survival prediction model for clinical trial completion based on the combination of denoising autoencoder(DAE)and DeepSurv models.The DAE is used to obtain a robust representation of features by breaking the loop of raw features after autoencoder training,and then the robust features are provided to DeepSurv as input for training.The clinical trial dataset for training the model was obtained from the ClinicalTrials.gov dataset.A study of clinical trial completion in pregnant women was conducted in response to the fact that many current clinical trials exclude pregnant women.The experimental results showed that the denoising autoencoder and deep survival regression(DAE-DSR)model was able to extract meaningful and robust features for survival analysis;the C-index of the training and test datasets were 0.74 and 0.75 respectively.Compared with the Cox propor-tional hazards model and DeepSurv model,the survival analysis curves obtained by using DAE-DSR model had more prominent features,and the model was more robust and performed better in actual prediction.
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    Plasma proteome profiling reveals biomarkers of chemotherapy resistance in patients with advanced colorectal cancer

    Jingxin YangJin ChenLuobin ZhangFangming Zhou...
    215-224页
    查看更多>>摘要：Colorectal cancer(CRC)is one of the most common cancers.Patients with advanced CRC can only rely on chemotherapy to improve outcomes.However,primary drug resistance frequently occurs and is difficult to pre-dict.Changes in plasma protein composition have shown potential in clinical diagnosis.Thus,it is urgent to identify potential protein biomarkers for pri-mary resistance to chemotherapy for patients with CRC.Automatic sample preparation and high-throughput analysis were used to explore potential plasma protein biomarkers.Drug susceptibility testing of circulating tumor cells(CTCs)has been investigated,and the relationship between their values and protein expressions has been discussed.In addition,the dif-ferential proteins in different chemotherapy outcomes have been analyzed.Finally,the potential biomarkers have been detected via enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay(ELISA).Plasma proteome of 60 CRC patients were profiled.The correlation between plasma protein levels and the results of drug susceptibility testing of CTCs was performed,and 85 proteins showed a significant positive or negative correlation with chemotherapy resistance.Forty-four CRC patients were then divided into three groups according to their chemotherapy outcomes(objective response,stable disease,and progressive disease),and 37 differential proteins were found to be related to chemotherapy resistance.The overlapping proteins were further inves-tigated in an additional group of 79 patients using ELISA.Protein levels of F5 and PROZ significantly increased in the progressive disease group compared to other outcome groups.Our study indicated that F5 and PROZ proteins could represent potential biomarkers of resistance to chemo-therapy in advanced CRC patients.
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    Toward predictable universal genetic circuit design

    Yuanli GaoBaojun Wang
    225-229页
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