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deepDriver: Predicting Cancer Driver Genes Based on Somatic Mutations Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
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With the advances in high-throughput technologies, millions of somatic mutations have been reported in the past decade. Identifying driver genes with oncogenic mutations from these data is a critical and challenging problem. Many computational methods have been proposed to predict driver genes. Among them, machine learning-based methods usually train a classifier with representations that concatenate various types of features extracted from different kinds of data. Although successful, simply concatenating different types of features may not be the best way to fuse these data. We notice that a few types of data characterize the similarities of genes, to better integrate them with other data and improve the accuracy of driver gene prediction, in this study, a deep learning-based method (deepDriver) is proposed by performing convolution on mutation-based features of genes and their neighbors in the similarity networks. The method allows the convolutional neural network to learn information within mutation data and similarity networks simultaneously, which enhances the prediction of driver genes. deepDriver achieves AUC scores of 0.984 and 0.976 on breast cancer and colorectal cancer, which are superior to the competing algorithms. Further evaluations of the top 10 predictions also demonstrate that deepDriver is valuable for predicting new driver genes.
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“This includes the use of AI in nearly every step of next-generation sequencing (NGS) processing and interpretation, including mutation identification (122, 123), artifact filtering (124), and driver gene identification (125).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Luo, P., Ding, Y., Lei, X., & Wu, F.-X.
- Affiliations
- University of Saskatchewan (CA)
- Shaanxi Normal University (CN)
- Hainan Normal University (CN)
- Corresponding author
- Wu, Fang-Xiang
- Venue
- Frontiers in Genetics
- Publisher
- Frontiers Media SA
- Published
- 2019-01-29
- Volume
- 10
- Pages
- 13-13
- ISSN
- 1664-8021 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC6361806
- OpenAlex
- W2913030342
- Cited by
- 107
- References
- 54
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 19 · 2023: 30 · 2022: 17 · 2021: 17 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 5
- FWCI
- 4.19
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Frontiers in Genetics (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Funders
- China Scholarship Council
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cancer Research › Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genomics and Rare Diseases
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
- Keywords
- cancer driver genes, somatic mutations, deep convolutional neural networks, similarity networks, multi-omics integration, breast cancer, colorectal cancer, oncogenic mutations
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