Summary of Celcomen: Spatial Causal Disentanglement For Single-cell and Tissue Perturbation Modeling, by Stathis Megas et al.
Celcomen: spatial causal disentanglement for single-cell and tissue perturbation modeling
by Stathis Megas, Daniel G. Chen, Krzysztof Polanski, Moshe Eliasof, Carola-Bibiane Schonlieb, Sarah A. Teichmann
First submitted to arxiv on: 9 Sep 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Tissues and Organs (q-bio.TO)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary In this research paper, a novel approach called Celcomen is presented, which uses mathematical causality to understand gene regulation programs in single-cell data and spatial transcriptomics. The method employs a generative graph neural network to learn interactions between genes and generate counterfactual scenarios that simulate experimental samples. This allows researchers to gain insights into disease-induced changes and therapy responses at the level of individual cells within tissues. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Celcomen is a new way to understand how genes work together in different parts of our bodies. It uses special math and computer algorithms to figure out how genes are controlled, even when we can’t directly measure it. This helps scientists learn more about diseases like cancer and how they respond to treatment. Celcomen can also create fake scenarios that mimic what would happen if a cell was exposed to certain substances, giving us valuable information without needing to conduct actual experiments. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Graph neural network
