An end-to-end heterogeneous graph attention network for Mycobacterium tuberculosis drug-resistance prediction.

ABSTRACT: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a threat to global public health. To mitigate the impacts of AMR, it is important to identify the molecular mechanisms of AMR and thereby determine optimal therapy as early as possible. Conventional machine learning-based drug-resistance analyses assume genetic variations to be homogeneous, thus not distinguishing between coding and intergenic sequences. In this study, we represent genetic data from Mycobacterium tuberculosis as a graph, and then adopt a deep graph learning method-heterogeneous graph attention network ('HGAT-AMR')-to predict anti-tuberculosis (TB) drug resistance. The HGAT-AMR model is able to accommodate incomplete phenotypic profiles, as well as provide 'attention scores' of genes and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) both at a p

SUBMITTER: Yang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8575050 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature