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Generative aptamer discovery using RaptGen

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NATURE COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE
Volume 2, Issue 6, Pages 378-386

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SPRINGERNATURE
DOI: 10.1038/s43588-022-00249-6

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  1. NIG supercomputer at ROIS National Institute of Genetics
  2. JST CREST [JPMJCR1881, JPMJCR21F1]

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This study developed a method called RaptGen for in silico aptamer generation. By embedding simulated sequence data into a low-dimensional latent space based on motif information, RaptGen successfully generated aptamers that were not included in high-throughput sequencing. The study demonstrated that RaptGen could be applied to activity-guided aptamer generation and that the latent representation played an important role in aptamer discovery.
Nucleic acid aptamers are generated by an in vitro molecular evolution method known as systematic evolution of ligands by exponential enrichment (SELEX). Various candidates are limited by actual sequencing data from an experiment. Here we developed RaptGen, which is a variational autoencoder for in silico aptamer generation. RaptGen exploits a profile hidden Markov model decoder to represent motif sequences effectively. We showed that RaptGen embedded simulation sequence data into low-dimensional latent space on the basis of motif information. We also performed sequence embedding using two independent SELEX datasets. RaptGen successfully generated aptamers from the latent space even though they were not included in high-throughput sequencing. RaptGen could also generate a truncated aptamer with a short learning model. We demonstrated that RaptGen could be applied to activity-guided aptamer generation according to Bayesian optimization. We concluded that a generative method by RaptGen and latent representation are useful for aptamer discovery.

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