A Systematic Evaluation of Knowledge Graph Embeddings for Gene-Disease Association Prediction

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.08445v1
• Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2025 11:11:35 GMT
• Title: A Systematic Evaluation of Knowledge Graph Embeddings for Gene-Disease Association Prediction
• Authors: Catarina Canastra, Cátia Pesquita,
• Abstract summary: This work introduces a novel framework for comparing the performance of link prediction versus node-pair classification tasks.<n>It also evaluates the impact of the semantic richness through a disease-specific ontology and additional links between evaluation.<n>Results show that enriching the encoded representation of diseases slightly improves performance, while additional links generate a greater impact.
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• Abstract: Discovery gene-disease links is important in biology and medicine areas, enabling disease identification and drug repurposing. Machine learning approaches accelerate this process by leveraging biological knowledge represented in ontologies and the structure of knowledge graphs. Still, many existing works overlook ontologies explicitly representing diseases, missing causal and semantic relationships between them. The gene-disease association problem naturally frames itself as a link prediction task, where embedding algorithms directly predict associations by exploring the structure and properties of the knowledge graph. Some works frame it as a node-pair classification task, combining embedding algorithms with traditional machine learning algorithms. This strategy aligns with the logic of a machine learning pipeline. However, the use of negative examples and the lack of validated gene-disease associations to train embedding models may constrain its effectiveness. This work introduces a novel framework for comparing the performance of link prediction versus node-pair classification tasks, analyses the performance of state of the art gene-disease association approaches, and compares the different order-based formalizations of gene-disease association prediction. It also evaluates the impact of the semantic richness through a disease-specific ontology and additional links between ontologies. The framework involves five steps: data splitting, knowledge graph integration, embedding, modeling and prediction, and method evaluation. Results show that enriching the semantic representation of diseases slightly improves performance, while additional links generate a greater impact. Link prediction methods better explore the semantic richness encoded in knowledge graphs. Although node-pair classification methods identify all true positives, link prediction methods outperform overall.

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