TransOrGAN: An Artificial Intelligence Mapping of Rat Transcriptomic Profiles between Organs, Ages, and Sexes. 2023

Ting Li, and Ruth Roberts, and Zhichao Liu, and Weida Tong
National Center for Toxicological Research, Food and Drug Administration, Jefferson, Arkansas 72079, United States.

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 288 samples in 9 different organs of both sexes and 4 developmental stages. First, we demonstrated that TransOrGAN could infer transcriptomic profiles between any 2 of the 9 organs studied, yielding an average cosine similarity of 0.984 between synthetic transcriptomic profiles and their corresponding real profiles. Second, we found that TransOrGAN could infer transcriptomic profiles observed in females from males, with an average cosine similarity of 0.984. Third, we found that TransOrGAN could infer transcriptomic profiles in juvenile, adult, and aged animals from adolescent animals with an average cosine similarity of 0.981, 0.983, and 0.989, respectively. Altogether, TransOrGAN is an innovative approach to infer transcriptomic profiles between ages, sexes, and organ systems, offering the opportunity to reduce animal usage and to provide an integrated assessment of toxicity in the whole organism irrespective of sex or age.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D008297 Male Males
D005260 Female Females
D000818 Animals Unicellular or multicellular, heterotrophic organisms, that have sensation and the power of voluntary movement. Under the older five kingdom paradigm, Animalia was one of the kingdoms. Under the modern three domain model, Animalia represents one of the many groups in the domain EUKARYOTA. Animal,Metazoa,Animalia
D001185 Artificial Intelligence Theory and development of COMPUTER SYSTEMS which perform tasks that normally require human intelligence. Such tasks may include speech recognition, LEARNING; VISUAL PERCEPTION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; reasoning, PROBLEM SOLVING, DECISION-MAKING, and translation of language. AI (Artificial Intelligence),Computer Reasoning,Computer Vision Systems,Knowledge Acquisition (Computer),Knowledge Representation (Computer),Machine Intelligence,Computational Intelligence,Acquisition, Knowledge (Computer),Computer Vision System,Intelligence, Artificial,Intelligence, Computational,Intelligence, Machine,Knowledge Representations (Computer),Reasoning, Computer,Representation, Knowledge (Computer),System, Computer Vision,Systems, Computer Vision,Vision System, Computer,Vision Systems, Computer
D051381 Rats The common name for the genus Rattus. Rattus,Rats, Laboratory,Rats, Norway,Rattus norvegicus,Laboratory Rat,Laboratory Rats,Norway Rat,Norway Rats,Rat,Rat, Laboratory,Rat, Norway,norvegicus, Rattus
D059467 Transcriptome The pattern of GENE EXPRESSION at the level of genetic transcription in a specific organism or under specific circumstances in specific cells. Transcriptomes,Gene Expression Profiles,Gene Expression Signatures,Transcriptome Profiles,Expression Profile, Gene,Expression Profiles, Gene,Expression Signature, Gene,Expression Signatures, Gene,Gene Expression Profile,Gene Expression Signature,Profile, Gene Expression,Profile, Transcriptome,Profiles, Gene Expression,Profiles, Transcriptome,Signature, Gene Expression,Signatures, Gene Expression,Transcriptome Profile

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