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In Frontiers in bioinformatics

Large scale cancer genomics data provide crucial information about the disease and reveal points of intervention. However, systematic data have been collected in specific cell lines and their collection is laborious and costly. Hence, there is a need to develop computational models that can predict such data for any genomic context of interest. Here we develop novel models that build on variational graph auto-encoders and can integrate diverse types of data to provide high quality predictions of genetic interactions, cell line dependencies and drug sensitivities, outperforming previous methods. Our models, data and implementation are available at: https://github.com/aijag/drugGraphNet.

Gervits Asia, Sharan Roded

2022

cell-line dependency, deep learning, drug sensitivity, genetic interaction, variational graph auto-encoder