# Find genes by training a neural network on reference position data. # # @param seed A seed to get reproducible results. neural <- function(preset, progress = NULL, seed = 448077) { species_ids <- preset$species_ids gene_ids <- preset$gene_ids reference_gene_ids <- preset$reference_gene_ids cached( "neural", c(species_ids, gene_ids, reference_gene_ids), { # nolint set.seed(seed) gene_count <- length(gene_ids) # Prefilter distances by species. distances <- geposan::distances[species %chin% species_ids] # Input data for the network. This contains the gene ID as an # identifier as well as the per-species gene distances as input # variables. data <- data.table(gene = gene_ids) # Buffer to keep track of species included in the computation. # Species from `species_ids` may be excluded if they don't have # enough data. species_ids_included <- NULL # Make a column containing positions for each species. for (species_id in species_ids) { species_data <- distances[ species == species_id, .(gene, position) ] # Only include species with at least 25% known values. species_data <- stats::na.omit(species_data) if (nrow(species_data) >= 0.25 * gene_count) { species_ids_included <- c(species_ids_included, species_id) data <- merge(data, species_data, all.x = TRUE) # Replace missing data with mean values. The neural network # can't handle NAs in a meaningful way. Choosing extreme # values here would result in heavily biased results. # Therefore, the mean value is chosen as a compromise. # However, this will of course lessen the significance of # the results. mean_position <- round(species_data[, mean(position)]) data[is.na(position), position := mean_position] # Name the new column after the species. setnames(data, "position", species_id) } } # Extract the reference genes. reference_data <- data[gene %chin% reference_gene_ids] reference_data[, neural := 1.0] # Take out random samples from the remaining genes. This is another # compromise with a negative impact on significance. Because there # is no information on genes with are explicitely *not* TPE-OLD # genes, we have to assume that a random sample of genes has a low # probability of including TPE-OLD genes. without_reference_data <- data[!gene %chin% reference_gene_ids] reference_samples <- without_reference_data[ sample( nrow(without_reference_data), nrow(reference_data) ) ] reference_samples[, neural := 0.0] # Merge training data. The training data includes all reference # genes as well as an equal number of random sample genes. training_data <- rbindlist(list(reference_data, reference_samples)) # Construct and train the neural network. nn_formula <- stats::as.formula(sprintf( "neural~%s", paste(species_ids_included, collapse = "+") )) layer1 <- length(species_ids) * 0.66 layer2 <- layer1 * 0.66 layer3 <- layer2 * 0.66 nn <- neuralnet::neuralnet( nn_formula, training_data, hidden = c(layer1, layer2, layer3), linear.output = FALSE ) if (!is.null(progress)) { progress(0.33) } # Apply the neural network. data[, score := neuralnet::compute(nn, data)$net.result] # Reconstruct and run the neural network for each training gene # by training it without the respective gene. for (gene_id in training_data$gene) { nn <- neuralnet::neuralnet( nn_formula, training_data[gene != gene_id], hidden = c(layer1, layer2, layer3), linear.output = FALSE ) data[ gene == gene_id, score := neuralnet::compute( nn, training_data[gene == gene_id] )$net.result ] } if (!is.null(progress)) { progress(1.0) } data[, .(gene, score)] } ) }