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How can deep learning architectures (variational autoencoders or graph neural networks) be effectively designed to integrate heterogeneous multi omics data such as ATAC-seq and RNA-seq, and methylation while maintaining interpretability of latent representations?

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updated by Ram Ram • written by Deepanshu • Deepanshu

This paper I'm reading right now use a VAE-based architecture for multi-modal integration and has explainable latent variables representation. It contains an example of ATAC and RNA-seq integration (Fig 6) in mouse immune cells. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-37477-x

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"Integration" is fairly straightforward - TotalVI does this (CITE + RNA) as a very basic example. Most of the foundation model papers (epibert, scmeformer, evo2, borzoi) take the approach of having a single latent represtation with multiple "output heads"

"Interpretability" is a whole different ball game. But I would caution that you may be asking models to do something more than you ask of other methods. If you've integrated data together and have batch-corrected PCs (or TF-IDF PCs) - are these features "interpretable"? I would venture that to understand latent features of just about any sort, one would have to do the same kind of analysis - regardless of whether they come from deep learning or other methodology.

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