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GEARS: Predicting transcriptional outcomes of novel multi-gene perturbations

This repository hosts the official implementation of GEARS, a method that can predict transcriptional response to both single and multi-gene perturbations using single-cell RNA-sequencing data from perturbational screens.

<p align="center"><img src="https://github.com/snap-stanford/GEARS/blob/master/img/gears.png" alt="gears" width="900px" /></p>

Installation

Install PyG, and then do pip install cell-gears.

[New] Updates in v0.1.1

A note on usage:

Core API Interface

Using the API, you can (1) reproduce the results in our paper and (2) train GEARS on your perturbation dataset using a few lines of code.

from gears import PertData, GEARS

# get data
pert_data = PertData('./data')
# load dataset in paper: norman, adamson, dixit.
pert_data.load(data_name = 'norman')
# specify data split
pert_data.prepare_split(split = 'simulation', seed = 1)
# get dataloader with batch size
pert_data.get_dataloader(batch_size = 32, test_batch_size = 128)

# set up and train a model
gears_model = GEARS(pert_data, device = 'cuda:8')
gears_model.model_initialize(hidden_size = 64)
gears_model.train(epochs = 20)

# save/load model
gears_model.save_model('gears')
gears_model.load_pretrained('gears')

# predict
gears_model.predict([['CBL', 'CNN1'], ['FEV']])
gears_model.GI_predict(['CBL', 'CNN1'], GI_genes_file=None)

To use your own dataset, create a scanpy adata object with a gene_name column in adata.var, and two columns condition, cell_type in adata.obs. Then run:

pert_data.new_data_process(dataset_name = 'XXX', adata = adata)
# to load the processed data
pert_data.load(data_path = './data/XXX')

Demos

NameDescription
Dataset TutorialTutorial on how to use the dataset loader and read customized data
Model TutorialTutorial on how to train GEARS
Plot top 20 DE genesTutorial on how to plot the top 20 DE genes
UncertaintyTutorial on how to train an uncertainty-aware GEARS model

Colab

NameDescription
Using Trained ModelUse a model trained on Norman et al. 2019 to make predictions (Needs Colab Pro)

Cite Us

@article{roohani2023predicting,
  title={Predicting transcriptional outcomes of novel multigene perturbations with gears},
  author={Roohani, Yusuf and Huang, Kexin and Leskovec, Jure},
  journal={Nature Biotechnology},
  year={2023},
  publisher={Nature Publishing Group US New York}
}

Paper: Link

Code for reproducing figures: Link