Latest update: 2022-09-17

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The code of NeuronMotif is available at github:

https://github.com/wzthu/NeuronMotif

If you have any questions about using NeuronMotif or downloading data, please feel free to contact:

Zheng Wei, weiz(at)tsinghua.edu.cn

Department of Automation, Tsinghua University

Cite: Wei, Zheng, et al. “NeuronMotif: Deciphering transcriptional cis-regulatory codes from deep neural networks.” bioRxiv (2021).doi:10.1101/2021.02.10.430606

1 The goal of NeuronMotif

NeuronMotif is an algorithm that can convert model weights of a well-trained Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to motif grammar including motif dictionary and motif syntax (Figure I). NeuronMotif does not depend on any known positive sequence samples or other prior information. User only need to provide the architecture and the weight of CNN.

NeuronMotif Algorithm

  • Input: convolutional neural network

  • Output: cis-regulatory grammar (glossary and syntax)

Figure I. The goal of NeuronMotif

Figure I. The goal of NeuronMotif

2 Motif grammar examples

In this work, we use two datasets from DeepSEA[1] and Basset[2]. We train five models:

Trained by DeepSEA dataset:

  • DeepSEA

  • DD-10

Trained by Basset dataset:

  • Basset

  • BD-10

Here, we show some examples of the motifs decoupled from these models. See next section for details.

4 References

[1] Zhou, Jian, and Olga G. Troyanskaya. “Predicting effects of noncoding variants with deep learning–based sequence model.” Nature methods 12.10 (2015): 931-934.

[2] Kelley, David R., Jasper Snoek, and John L. Rinn. “Basset: learning the regulatory code of the accessible genome with deep convolutional neural networks.” Genome research 26.7 (2016): 990-999.

[3] Shrikumar, Avanti, Peyton Greenside, and Anshul Kundaje. “Learning important features through propagating activation differences.” International Conference on Machine Learning. PMLR, 2017.

[4] Simonyan, Karen, Andrea Vedaldi, and Andrew Zisserman. “Deep inside convolutional networks: Visualising image classification models and saliency maps.” arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.6034 (2013).