TransOrGAN: An Artificial Intelligence Mapping of Rat Transcriptomic Profiles between Organs, Ages, and Sexes.

ABSTRACT: Animal studies are required for the evaluation of candidate drugs to ensure patient and volunteer safety. Toxicogenomics is often applied in these studies to gain understanding of the underlying mechanisms of toxicity, which is usually focused on critical organs such as the liver or kidney in young male rats. There is a strong ethical reason to reduce, refine and replace animal use (the 3Rs), where the mapping of data between organs, sexes and ages could reduce the cost and time of drug development. Herein, we proposed a generative adversarial network (GAN)-based framework entitled TransOrGAN that allowed the molecular mapping of gene expression profiles in different rodent organ systems and across sex and age groups. We carried out a proof-of-concept study based on rat RNA-seq data from 2

SUBMITTER: Li T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10433534 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature