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    • Accurate identification of cancer driver genes is vital for cancer research and therapeutic development.
    • Graph neural network (GNN) methods have shown promise in predicting cancer driver genes but often struggle with capturing global information and suffer from feature smoothing as network depth increases.
    • These limitations hinder the performance of existing GNN-based driver gene identification approaches.

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    • To develop an advanced method, TGCN (Transformer-GCN), for improved cancer driver gene identification.
    • To address the limitations of GNNs in capturing global information and mitigating feature smoothing.
    • To enhance the accuracy and effectiveness of predicting cancer driver genes using multi-omics data and gene association networks.

    Main Methods:

    • TGCN integrates a Transformer module with a Chebyshev Graph Convolutional Network (GCN).
    • Multivariate gene feature matrices were constructed using multi-omics data and multi-dimensional gene association networks.
    • A Transformer module was employed to enrich gene feature representations, followed by Chebyshev GCN for driver gene identification.

    Main Results:

    • TGCN effectively captures global information and mitigates feature smoothing issues inherent in traditional GNNs.
    • Experimental results show that TGCN significantly outperforms representative methods in identifying driver genes.
    • The proposed method demonstrates superior performance for both pan-cancer and single-type cancer driver gene identification.

    Conclusions:

    • TGCN offers a robust and effective approach for cancer driver gene identification by leveraging the strengths of Transformer and GCN architectures.
    • The method successfully addresses key limitations of existing GNN-based approaches, leading to improved prediction accuracy.
    • TGCN represents a significant advancement in computational methods for cancer genomics research.