Learning to Discover Regulatory Elements for Gene Expression Prediction

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.13991v1
• Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2025 03:25:49 GMT
• Title: Learning to Discover Regulatory Elements for Gene Expression Prediction
• Authors: Xingyu Su, Haiyang Yu, Degui Zhi, Shuiwang Ji,
• Abstract summary: Seq2Exp is a Sequence to Expression network designed to discover and extract regulatory elements that drive target gene expression. Our approach captures the causal relationship between epigenomic signals, DNA sequences and their associated regulatory elements.
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• Abstract: We consider the problem of predicting gene expressions from DNA sequences. A key challenge of this task is to find the regulatory elements that control gene expressions. Here, we introduce Seq2Exp, a Sequence to Expression network explicitly designed to discover and extract regulatory elements that drive target gene expression, enhancing the accuracy of the gene expression prediction. Our approach captures the causal relationship between epigenomic signals, DNA sequences and their associated regulatory elements. Specifically, we propose to decompose the epigenomic signals and the DNA sequence conditioned on the causal active regulatory elements, and apply an information bottleneck with the Beta distribution to combine their effects while filtering out non-causal components. Our experiments demonstrate that Seq2Exp outperforms existing baselines in gene expression prediction tasks and discovers influential regions compared to commonly used statistical methods for peak detection such as MACS3. The source code is released as part of the AIRS library (https://github.com/divelab/AIRS/).

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