Learning biologically-interpretable latent representations for gene expression data Pathway Activity Score Learning Algorithm

doi:10.1007/s10994-022-06158-z

Learning biologically-interpretable latent representations for gene expression data Pathway Activity Score Learning Algorithm

2022-04-29

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Ioannis Tsamardinos *

DOI：10.1007/s10994-022-06158-z

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Molecular gene-expression datasets consist of samples with tens of thousands of measured quantities (i.e., high dimensional data). However, lower-dimensional representations that retain the useful biological information do exist. We present a novel algorithm for such dimensionality reduction called Pathway Activity Score Learning (PASL). The major novelty of PASL is that the constructed features directly correspond to known molecular pathways (genesets in general) and can be interpreted as pathway activity scores. Hence, unlike PCA and similar methods, PASL's latent space has a fairly straightforward biological interpretation. PASL is shown to outperform in predictive performance the state-of-the-art method (PLIER) on two collections of breast cancer and leukemia gene expression datasets. PASL is also trained on a large corpus of 50000 gene expression samples to construct a universal dictionary of features across different tissues and pathologies. The dictionary validated on 35643 held-out samples for reconstruction error. It is then applied on 165 held-out datasets spanning a diverse range of diseases. The AutoML tool JADBio is employed to show that the predictive information in the PASL-created feature space is retained after the transformation. The code is available at haps://github.com/mensxmachi na/PASL.

Keywords:

Pathway activity

Dimensionality reduction

Disease classification

Differential activation analysis

Learning biologically-interpretable latent representations for gene expression data Pathway Activity Score Learning Algorithm

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