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Embedding gene sets in low-dimensional space

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An important task in system biology is to understand cellular processes through the lens of gene sets and their expression patterns. Machine learning can help, but genes form complex interaction networks, and levarging this information in machine learning applications requires a sophisticated data representation.

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Fig. 1: One of the most common results of systems biology analysis is the identification of sets of related genes.

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