Novel Knowledge-Guided Generative Methods for Synthetic Transcriptomic Data
As biomedical research increasingly relies on data-intensive tools, the quality and utility of datasets are critical. Challenges such as imbalances, biases, and ethical or legal constraints often limit access to high-quality data. Synthetic data generation can help overcome these limitations. Here, we present a comparative analysis of generative models for transcriptomic data, investigating strategies to incorporate prior biological knowledge via gene graphs. This ensures that synthetic data capture real-world gene patterns, maintaining their usefulness for downstream tasks. In particular, we introduce and benchmark three variants of the Generative Adversarial Network. Among the alternatives, MK-TGAN - an innovative multi-kernel, Graph Neural Network-based model - stands out for its performance in terms of both the realism and utility of the generated data. Unlike other methods, MK-TGAN leverages prior knowledge graphs by exploiting graph neural networks. Our results show that prior knowledge integration strategies improve performance, and that MK-TGAN consistently produces synthetic samples with superior realism and biological plausibility.
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