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Bayesian network-driven clustering analysis with feature selection for high-dimensional multi-modal molecular data.

ABSTRACT: Multi-modal molecular profiling data in bulk tumors or single cells are accumulating at a fast pace. There is a great need for developing statistical and computational methods to reveal molecular structures in complex data types toward biological discoveries. Here, we introduce Nebula, a novel Bayesian integrative clustering analysis for high dimensional multi-modal molecular data to identify directly interpretable clusters and associated biomarkers in a unified and biologically plausible framework. To facilitate computational efficiency, a variational Bayes approach is developed to approximate the joint posterior distribution to achieve model inference in high-dimensional settings. We describe a pan-cancer data analysis of genomic, epigenomic, and transcriptomic alterations in close to 9000 tumor samples across canonical oncogenic signaling pathways, immune and stemness phenotype, with comparisons to state-of-the-art clustering methods. We demonstrate that Nebula has the unique advantage of revealing patterns on the basis of shared pathway alterations, offering biological and clinical insights beyond tumor type and histology in the pan-cancer analysis setting. We also illustrate the utility of Nebula in single cell data for immune cell decomposition in peripheral blood samples.

SUBMITTER: Zhao Y

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7933297 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Bayesian network-driven clustering analysis with feature selection for high-dimensional multi-modal molecular data.

Zhao Yize Y Chang Changgee C Hannum Margaret M Lee Jasme J Shen Ronglai R

Scientific reports 20210304 1

Multi-modal molecular profiling data in bulk tumors or single cells are accumulating at a fast pace. There is a great need for developing statistical and computational methods to reveal molecular structures in complex data types toward biological discoveries. Here, we introduce Nebula, a novel Bayesian integrative clustering analysis for high dimensional multi-modal molecular data to identify directly interpretable clusters and associated biomarkers in a unified and biologically plausible framew ...[more]

PMID: 33664338

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Project description:BACKGROUND:Recent years have witnessed an increasing interest in multi-omics data, because these data allow for better understanding complex diseases such as cancer on a molecular system level. In addition, multi-omics data increase the chance to robustly identify molecular patient sub-groups and hence open the door towards a better personalized treatment of diseases. Several methods have been proposed for unsupervised clustering of multi-omics data. However, a number of challenges remain, such as the magnitude of features and the large difference in dimensionality across different omics data sources. RESULTS:We propose a multi-modal sparse denoising autoencoder framework coupled with sparse non-negative matrix factorization to robustly cluster patients based on multi-omics data. The proposed model specifically leverages pathway information to effectively reduce the dimensionality of omics data into a pathway and patient specific score profile. In consequence, our method allows us to understand, which pathway is a feature of which particular patient cluster. Moreover, recently proposed machine learning techniques allow us to disentangle the specific impact of each individual omics feature on a pathway score. We applied our method to cluster patients in several cancer datasets using gene expression, miRNA expression, DNA methylation and CNVs, demonstrating the possibility to obtain biologically plausible disease subtypes characterized by specific molecular features. Comparison against several competing methods showed a competitive clustering performance. In addition, post-hoc analysis of somatic mutations and clinical data provided supporting evidence and interpretation of the identified clusters. CONCLUSIONS:Our suggested multi-modal sparse denoising autoencoder approach allows for an effective and interpretable integration of multi-omics data on pathway level while addressing the high dimensional character of omics data. Patient specific pathway score profiles derived from our model allow for a robust identification of disease subgroups.

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Bayesian network-driven clustering analysis with feature selection for high-dimensional multi-modal molecular data.

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Bayesian network-driven clustering analysis with feature selection for high-dimensional multi-modal molecular data.

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