Deep learning as a tool for ecology and evolution

ML Borowiec, RB Dikow, PB Frandsen… - Methods in Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Deep learning is driving recent advances behind many everyday technologies, including
speech and image recognition, natural language processing and autonomous driving. It is …

Harnessing deep learning for population genetic inference

X Huang, A Rymbekova, O Dolgova, O Lao… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
In population genetics, the emergence of large-scale genomic data for various species and
populations has provided new opportunities to understand the evolutionary forces that drive …

Visualizing population structure with variational autoencoders

CJ Battey, GC Coffing, AD Kern - G3, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Dimensionality reduction is a common tool for visualization and inference of population
structure from genotypes, but popular methods either return too many dimensions for easy …

An overview of deep generative models in functional and evolutionary genomics

B Yelmen, F Jay - Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Following the widespread use of deep learning for genomics, deep generative modeling is
also becoming a viable methodology for the broad field. Deep generative models (DGMs) …

SALAI-Net: species-agnostic local ancestry inference network

B Oriol Sabat, D Mas Montserrat, X Giro-i-Nieto… - …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Local ancestry inference (LAI) is the high resolution prediction of ancestry labels
along a DNA sequence. LAI is important in the study of human history and migrations, and it …

Deep convolutional and conditional neural networks for large-scale genomic data generation

B Yelmen, A Decelle, LL Boulos… - PLoS Computational …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Applications of generative models for genomic data have gained significant momentum in
the past few years, with scopes ranging from data characterization to generation of genomic …

Inference of coalescence times and variant ages using convolutional neural networks

J Nait Saada, Z Tsangalidou, M Stricker… - Molecular Biology …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Accurate inference of the time to the most recent common ancestor (TMRCA) between pairs
of individuals and of the age of genomic variants is key in several population genetic …

Lai-net: Local-ancestry inference with neural networks

DM Montserrat, C Bustamante… - ICASSP 2020-2020 …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Local-ancestry inference (LAI), also referred to as ancestry deconvolution, provides high-
resolution ancestry estimation along the human genome. In both research and industry, LAI …

Haplotype and population structure inference using neural networks in whole-genome sequencing data

J Meisner, A Albrechtsen - Genome Research, 2022 - genome.cshlp.org
Accurate inference of population structure is important in many studies of population
genetics. Here we present HaploNet, a method for performing dimensionality reduction and …

Unsupervised deep learning can identify protein functional groups from unaligned sequences

KT David, KM Halanych - Genome Biology and Evolution, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Interpreting protein function from sequence data is a fundamental goal of bioinformatics.
However, our current understanding of protein diversity is bottlenecked by the fact that most …