SVEN

• Installation
• Usage
  • Predict gene expression level based on TSS of genes
  • Predict effects of SVs on gene expression level
  • Predict functional effects of small noncoding variants
• Customize your own SVEN model
  • Prepare sequences and get functional annotations
  • Transform functional annotations
  • Train expression prediction models

This repository contains code for SVEN, a multi-modality sequence-oriented in silico model, for quantifying genetic variants' regulatory impacts in over 350 tissues and cell lines.

The SVEN framework is described in the following manuscript: Yu Wang, Nan Liang and Ge Gao, Quantify genetic variants' regulatory potential via a hybrid sequence-oriented model, bioRxiv (2024).

Installation

Note

Now we provide two modes for prediction: Full mode and Fast mode. For reproducing results from our manuscript, please use Full mode; otherwise, we recommend using Fast mode with negligible precision loss.

Clone the repository then download and extract necessary resource files:

git clone https://github.com/gao-lab/SVEN.git
cd SVEN

# Download and extract resources and model parameters, default for fast mode
sh download_resources.sh # ~2G
# For full mode
sh download_resources.sh -m full # ~380G

We recommend using mamba or conda environment. Please check install instructions of mamba from https://github.com/mamba-org/mamba, Tensorflow from https://www.tensorflow.org/ and bedtools from https://bedtools.readthedocs.io/ for more details.

# Create conda environment: sven
conda create -n sven python=3.10

# Activate conda environment
conda activate sven

# Install bedtools
conda install bioconda::bedtools

# Install tensorflow with cuda 12
pip3 install --user "tensorflow[and-cuda]"==2.16.1
# Or only install tensorflow
pip3 install tensorflow==2.16.1

# Install the other dependencies
pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Usage

Predict gene expression level based on TSS of genes

# Process data and one-hot encoding
python prepare_data.py ./example/test_tss.txt
# OR get helps about prepare_data.py, the same below
python prepare_data.py -h

# Get functional annotations with CPUs in fast mode
python get_annotations.py
# OR get functional annotations with GPU 0 in full mode
python get_annotations.py --gpu 0 --mode full 

# Transform annotations in fast mode
python transform_annotations.py
# OR transform annotations in full mode
python transform_annotations.py --mode full

# Predict gene expression
python predict_expression.py # with all models
python predict_expression.py --target_idx 3 # with target model
python predict_expression.py --target_idx 3 --mode full # with full mode

Please check ./resources/cell_line_list.txt for the correspondence between target_idx and cell line.

Files and folders	Description
./example/test_tss.txt	Input TSS file. Columns: chromosome, position (1-based), strand, gene_name (gene_name should be list in "./resources/tss_gene_list.txt").
./work_dir	Default work folder. You can change it by --work_dir.
./work_dir/temp_bed	Processed bed file of input.
./work_dir/temp.h5	One-hot encoded sequences of input.
./work_dir/annotations	Folder for predicted annotations.
./work_dir/annotations/transformed	Folder for transformed annotations.
./work_dir/output	Folder for output.
./work_dir/output/exp_tss.txt	Predicted gene expression level in target cell line (log10 scale).

Predict effects of SVs on gene expression level

# Example in fast mode. If use full mode, please execute with "--mode full".
# Process data and one-hot encoding
python prepare_data.py ./example/test_sv.vcf --type sv

# Get functional annotations for ref seq and alt seq
python get_annotations.py --gpu 0 --type sv

# Transform annotations
python transform_annotations.py --type sv

# Predict gene expression
python predict_expression.py --type sv # with all models
python predict_expression.py --target_idx 3 --type sv # with target model

Input file and output files	Description
./example/test_sv.vcf	Input SV file. Columns: chromosome, position (1-based), ref allele, alt allele, sv info.
./work_dir/output/exp_ref.txt	Predicted gene expression level for ref allele in target cell line (log10 scale).
./work_dir/output/exp_alt.txt	Predicted gene expression level for alt allele in target cell line (log10 scale).
./work_dir/output/exp_log2fc.txt	Predicted effects of SVs on gene expression level in target cell line (log2 fold change).

Predict functional effects of small noncoding variants

# Process data and one-hot encoding
python prepare_data.py ./example/test_snv.vcf --type snv

# Get functional annotations for ref seq and alt seq
python get_annotations.py --gpu 0 --type snv
# With full mode and cpu
python get_annotations.py --type snv --mode full

# Calculate effects of small noncoding variants
python predict_effect.py # with optimal cutoff from REVA benchmark dataset
python predict_effect.py --cutoff 0.5 # with custom cutoff

Input and output file	Description
./example/test_snv.vcf	Input small variant file. Columns: chromosome, position (1-based), ref allele, alt allele, variant info.
./work_dir/output/effect_snv.txt	Predicted effects of small noncoding variants. Column: effect size, label (based on given cutoff, 1 for functional variant and 0 for non-functional variant.)

Customize your own SVEN model

As a framework with high flexibility, you can customize your own SVEN models.

Necessary files: Tss of genes ./resources/tss_gene_list.txt, corresponding mRNA decay features (or other features; if you want to use sequence only, you may not provide it) ./resources/utr_features.txt and corresponding gene expression profile (example is the expression profile from 53 GTEx tissues) ./resources/gene_exp.txt.

(1) Prepare sequences and get functional annotations.

# You can use our annotation module:
python prepare_data.py ./resources/tss_gene_list.txt
python get_annotations.py --gpu 0 # or with --mode full

# You can also use other tools to get annotations, such as Enformer:
# Check https://github.com/google-deepmind/deepmind-research/tree/master/enformer for more details about Enformer.
python prepare_data.py ./resources/tss_gene_list.txt --seq_len 393216
python custom_sven.py --action enformer_predict --enformer_path ENFORMER_MODEL_PATH

(2) Transform functional annotations.

# For our annotation module:
python transform_annotations.py # or with --mode full

# For Enformer annotations with custom decay_list:
python custom_sven.py --action enformer_transform --decay_list "0.01, 0.10, 0.20"

(3) Train expression prediction models.

Build-in models: XGBoost model and elasticNet. You can modify model's parameters in train_xgb() and train_elasticNet() or add more models in ./sven/train.py

# Train xgb model with default setting on first cell line/tissue in gene expression profile
python custom_sven.py --action exp_train --exp_id 0 # or with --mode full

# Train elasticNet model, including rRNA genes
python custom_sven.py --action exp_train --exp_id 0 --model_type elasticNet --ignore_rRNA false

# Train with Enformer annotation only, with custom performance cutoff, device and random seed 
python custom_sven.py --action exp_train --exp_id 0 --mode enformer --cutoff 0.6 --utr_features false --device gpu --seed 42

Contact

Yu Wang: [email protected]