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Incorporating biological structure into machine learning models in biomedicine

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Crawford, Jake, Greene, Casey S·2020·Current Opinion in Biotechnology

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In biomedical applications of machine learning, relevant information often has a rich structure that is not easily encoded as real-valued predictors. Examples of such data include DNA or RNA sequences, gene sets or pathways, gene interaction or coexpression networks, ontologies, and phylogenetic trees. We highlight recent examples of machine learning models that use structure to constrain model architecture or incorporate structured data into model training. For machine learning in biomedicine, where sample size is limited and model interpretability is crucial, incorporating prior knowledge in the form of structured data can be particularly useful. The area of research would benefit from performant open source implementations and independent benchmarking efforts.

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Authors
Crawford, J., & Greene, C. S.
Affiliations
  • University of Pennsylvania (US)
  • Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation (US)
Corresponding author
Greene, Casey S
Venue
Current Opinion in Biotechnology
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2020-06
Volume
63
Pages
126-134
ISSN
0958-1669 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2980813077
Cited by
41
References
61
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 9 · 2020: 5
FWCI
0.55
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Current Opinion in Biotechnology (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion, cc-by)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (cc-by)
Funders
  • Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
  • National Institutes of Health
  • Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation for Childhood Cancer
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Machine Learning in Bioinformatics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computational Theory and Mathematics › Computational Drug Discovery Methods
Keywords
structured data, biological structures, machine learning models, prior knowledge incorporation, gene interaction networks, co-expression network, ontology (information science), phylogenetic tree, model interpretability, small sample size, benchmarking, open source software
MeSH terms
Machine Learning, Phylogeny

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