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Gene function finding through cross-organism ensemble learning.

Gianluca Moro¹, Marco Masseroli²

¹DISI - University of Bologna, Via dell'Università, Cesena (FC), Italy. gianluca.moro@unibo.it.

|February 13, 2021

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GeFF (Gene Function Finder) is a novel method that uses machine learning to predict new gene annotations for organisms. This tool enhances biological discovery by reliably identifying gene functions, even for understudied species.

Keywords:

Biomolecular annotation prediction Data representation Ensemble learning Gene ontology Knowledge discovery Transfer learning

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Machine Learning

Background:

Structured biological information, like Gene Ontology (GO) annotations, aids machine learning for biological discovery.
GO annotations are crucial but can be unreliable or incomplete, especially for less-studied organisms.

Purpose of the Study:

To present GeFF (Gene Function Finder), a novel cross-organism ensemble learning method for predicting new GO annotations.
To reliably predict gene functions for a target organism using annotations from a related, well-studied source organism.

Main Methods:

GeFF employs a supervised learning approach using perturbed existing annotations to train a model.
The model learns to rebuild original annotations from a reduced set and predict new, unknown annotations.
Ensemble learning approaches were combined with the core method and compared to single-model techniques.

Main Results:

The method accurately rebuilds known annotations and effectively predicts novel, unknown gene functions.
The prediction model successfully discovers new annotations in different target organisms without retraining.
Testing across five organisms (Homo sapiens, Mus musculus, Bos taurus, Gallus gallus, Dictyostelium discoideum) demonstrated the effectiveness of the cross-organism ensemble approach.

Conclusions:

GeFF provides reliable, novel gene annotations ranked by likelihood, accelerating curation.
Predicted annotations complement existing knowledge and focus manual curation efforts on high-priority findings.