Self-supervised deep learning of gene-gene interactions for improved gene expression recovery
Wei, Q.; Islam, M. T.; Zhou, Y.; Xing, L.
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Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) has emerged as a powerful tool to gain biological insights at the cellular level. However, due to technical limitations of the existing sequencing technologies, low gene expression values are often omitted, leading to inaccurate gene counts. The available methods, including state-of-the-art deep learning techniques, are incapable of imputing the gene expressions reliably because of the lack of a mechanism to explicitly consider the underlying biological knowledge of the system. Here we tackle the problem in two steps to exploit the gene-gene interactions of the system: (i) we reposition the genes in such a way that their spatial configuration reflects their interactive relationships; and (ii) we use a self-supervised 2D convolutional neural network to extract the contextual features of the interactions from the spatially configured genes and impute the omitted values. Extensive experiments with both simulated and experimental scRNA-seq datasets are carried out to demonstrate the superior performance of the proposed strategy against the existing imputation methods.
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