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Explainable multi-task learning for multi-modality biological data analysis

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Xin Tang
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Jiawei Zhang
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Yichun He
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Xinhe Zhang
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Zuwan Lin
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Sebastian Partarrieu
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Emma Bou Hanna
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Zhaolin Ren
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Hao Shen
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Yuhong Yang
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Xiao Wang
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Na Li
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Jie Ding *
刘佳 (Jia Liu) *
DOI:10.1038/s41467-023-37477-xdelete
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Current biotechnologies can simultaneously measure multiple high-dimensional modalities (e.g., RNA, DNA accessibility, and protein) from the same cells. A combination of different analytical tasks (e.g., multi-modal integration and cross-modal analysis) is required to comprehensively understand such data, inferring how gene regulation drives biological diversity and functions. However, current analytical methods are designed to perform a single task, only providing a partial picture of the multi-modal data. Here, we present UnitedNet, an explainable multi-task deep neural network capable of integrating different tasks to analyze single-cell multi-modality data. Applied to various multi-modality datasets (e.g., Patch-seq, multiome ATAC + gene expression, and spatial transcriptomics), UnitedNet demonstrates similar or better accuracy in multi-modal integration and cross-modal prediction compared with state-of-the-art methods. Moreover, by dissecting the trained UnitedNet with the explainable machine learning algorithm, we can directly quantify the relationship between gene expression and other modalities with cell-type specificity. UnitedNet is a comprehensive end-to-end framework that could be broadly applicable to single-cell multi-modality biology. This framework has the potential to facilitate the discovery of cell-type-specific regulation kinetics across transcriptomics and other modalities. Multimodal biological data is challenging to analyze. Here, the authors develop UnitedNet, an explainable deep neural network for analyzing single-cell multimodal biological data and estimating relationships between gene expression and other modalities with cell-type specificity.
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OMICS
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