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automatic context-specific network inference

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ACSNI

Automatic context-specific network inference

Determining tissue- and disease-specific circuit of biological pathways remains a fundamental goal of molecular biology. Many components of these biological pathways still remain unknown, hindering the full and accurate characterisation of biological processes of interest. ACSNI leverages artificial intelligence for the reconstruction of a biological pathway, aids the discovery of pathway components and classification of the crosstalk between pathways in specific tissues.

workflow

This tool is built in python3 with tensorflow backend and keras functional API.

Installation and running the tool

The best way to get ACSNI along with all the dependencies is to install the release from python package installer (pip)

pip install ACSNI This will add four command line scripts:

Script Context Usage
ACSNI-run Gene set analysis ACSNI-run -h
ACSNI-derive Single gene analysis ACSNI-derive -h
ACSNI-get Link pathway trait ACSNI-get -h
ACSNI-split Split expression data ACSNI-split -h

Utility functions can be imported using conventional python system like from ACSNI.dbs import ACSNIResults

Input ACSNI-run

Expression Matrix - The expression file (.csv), specified by -i, where columns are samples and rows are genes. The expression values should be normalised (eg. TPM, CPM, RSEM). Make sure the column name of the 1st column is "gene".

gene Sample1 Sample2 Sample3
Foxp1 123.2 274.1 852.6
PD1 324.2 494.1 452.6
CD8 523.6 624.1 252.6

This input should not be transformed in any way (e.g. log, z-scale)

Gene set matrix - The prior matrix (.csv) file, specified by -t, where rows are genes and column is a binary pathway membership. Where "1" means that a gene is in the pathway and "0" means that the gene is not know a priori. The standard prior looks like below. Make sure the column name of the 1st column is "gene".

gene Pathway
Foxp1 0
PD1 0
CD8 1

You can also supply gene IDs instead of gene symbols.

The tool can handle multiple pathway columns in the -t file as below.

gene Pathway1 Pathway2 Pathway3
Foxp1 0 0 0
PD1 0 1 0
CD8 1 0 1

Note: Each pathway above is analysed independently, and the outputs have no in-built relationship. The tool is designed to get a granular view of a single pathway at a time.

Output ACSNI-run

Database (.ptl)

Content Information
co Pathway Code
w Subprocess space
n Interaction scores
p Score classification
d Interaction direction
run_info Run parameters
methods Extractor functions

Predicted Network (.csv)

Content Meaning
name Gene
sub Subprocess
direction Direction of interactions with subprocess

Null (.csv) {Shuffled expression matrix}

Input ACSNI-derive

Expression Matrix - See ``-i``` description above.

Note - We highly recommend to removing any un-desirable genes (eg. MT, RPL, Receptor genes) from the expression matrix prior to running ACSNI-derive as they usually interfere during initial prior matrix generation steps.

Biotype file (Optional) - The biotype file (.csv) specified by -f, given if the generation of gene set should be based on a particular biotype specified by -b.

gene biotype
Foxp1 protein_coding
PD1 protein_coding
MALAT1 lncRNA
SNHG12 lncRNA
RNU1-114P snRNA

Correlation file (Optional) - The correlation file (.csv) specified by -u, given if the user wishes to replace "some" specific genes with other genes to be used as a prior for the first iteration of ACSNI-run (internally).

gene cor
Foxp1 0.9
PD1 0.89
MALAT1 0.85
SNHG12 0.80
RNU1-114P 0.72

Output ACSNI-derive

Database (.ptl)

Content Information
co Pathway Code
n Interaction scores
d Interaction direction
ac Correlation and T test results
fd Unfiltered prediction data
run_info Run parameters
methods Extractor functions

Predicted (.csv)

Content Meaning
name Gene
predict Classification of genes

Null (.csv) {Shuffled expression matrix}

Input ACSNI-get

ACSNI database - Output of ACSNI-run (.ptl) specified by -r.

Target phenotype - Biological phenotype file (.csv) to link ACSNI subprocesses, specified by -v. The sample IDs should match the IDs in the -i analysed by ACSNI-run.

Variable type - The type of phenotype i.e "numeric" or "character", specified by -c.

Outputs the strength of the associations across the subprocesses (.csv).

Input ACSNI-split

Expression Matrix - See ``-i``` description above.

Number of splits - The number of independent cohorts to generate from `-i```.

Outputs the data splits in the current working directory.

Extras

Example files representing the datasets analysed in the paper are included inside the folder "Resources".

R functions to reproduce the downstream analyses reported in the paper are inside the folder "R".

Example runs are inside the folder "sh".

To clone the source repository

git clone https://github.com/caanene1/ACSNI

Citation

ACSNI: An unsupervised machine-learning tool for prediction of tissue-specific pathway components using gene expression profiles Chinedu Anthony Anene, Faraz Khan, Findlay Bewicke-Copley, Eleni Maniati and Jun Wang

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