Adversarial generation of gene expression data

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• Ramon Vinas Torne, UCL
• Thursday 22 November 2018, 17:00-18:00
• Department of Computer Science and technology, sw01 .

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The problem of reverse engineering gene regulatory networks from high-throughput expression data is one of the biggest challenges in bioinformatics. In order to benchmark network inference algorithms, simulators of well-characterized expression datasets are often required. However, existing simulators have been criticized because they fail to emulate key properties of gene expression data (Maier et al., 2013).

The purpose of this work is two-fold. First, we study and propose mechanisms to faithfully assess the realism of a synthetic expression dataset. Second, we design an adversarial simulator of expression data, gGAN, based on a generative adversarial network (Goodfellow et al., 2014). We show that our model outperforms existing simulators by a large margin in terms of the realism of the generated data. More importantly, our results show that gGAN is, to our best knowledge, the first simulator that passes the Turing test for gene expression data proposed by Maier et al. (2013).

This talk is part of the CL-CompBio series.

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