Predicting gene essentiality and drug response from perturbation screens in preclinical cancer models with LEAP: Layered Ensemble of Autoencoders and Predictors

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.15646v1
• Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:12:36 GMT
• Title: Predicting gene essentiality and drug response from perturbation screens in preclinical cancer models with LEAP: Layered Ensemble of Autoencoders and Predictors
• Authors: Barbara Bodinier, Gaetan Dissez, Linus Bleistein, Antonin Dauvin,
• Abstract summary: We introduce LEAP (Layered Ensemble of Autoencoders and Predictors), a novel ensemble framework to improve robustness and generalization.<n>LEAP consistently outperforms state-of-the-art approaches in predicting gene essentiality or drug responses in unseen cell lines, tissues and disease models.
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• Abstract: Preclinical perturbation screens, where the effects of genetic, chemical, or environmental perturbations are systematically tested on disease models, hold significant promise for machine learning-enhanced drug discovery due to their scale and causal nature. Predictive models can infer perturbation responses for previously untested disease models based on molecular profiles. These in silico labels can expand databases and guide experimental prioritization. However, modelling perturbation-specific effects and generating robust prediction performances across diverse biological contexts remain elusive. We introduce LEAP (Layered Ensemble of Autoencoders and Predictors), a novel ensemble framework to improve robustness and generalization. LEAP leverages multiple DAMAE (Data Augmented Masked Autoencoder) representations and LASSO regressors. By combining diverse gene expression representation models learned from different random initializations, LEAP consistently outperforms state-of-the-art approaches in predicting gene essentiality or drug responses in unseen cell lines, tissues and disease models. Notably, our results show that ensembling representation models, rather than prediction models alone, yields superior predictive performance. Beyond its performance gains, LEAP is computationally efficient, requires minimal hyperparameter tuning and can therefore be readily incorporated into drug discovery pipelines to prioritize promising targets and support biomarker-driven stratification. The code and datasets used in this work are made publicly available.

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