arXiv:2608.18238cs.AIq-bio.QM2026-08

用图模型分析新冠病毒突变,提升变异株识别准确率。

GenEx: A Graph-Based Representational Paradigm for SARS-CoV-2 Variant Detection via Codon Co-occurrence Networks

论文配图:GenEx: A Graph-Based Representational Paradigm for SARS-CoV-2 Variant Detection via Codon Co-occurrence Networks
图 1 · 摘自论文原文
  • 将密码子序列转为共现图,捕捉复杂上下文关系。
  • 提取25个图特征,分类准确率达98.7%以上。
  • 适合病毒基因组分析与公共卫生监测领域研究者。

针对新冠病毒变异株(如Beta、Gamma、Delta、Omicron)的基因组分析,传统方法依赖序列比对、系统发育分析和突变频率统计,将基因序列视为线性字符串,忽略其上下文关联。本文提出GenEx框架,将原始基因序列转化为密码子共现图,通过MSCG(多尺度密码子共现图)与LAPCG(线性时间邻接PMI密码子图)生成图结构,并提取超过25个图特征。借鉴计算语言学思想,将密码子序列视为可解释的结构化符号词汇。此外,采用奇异值分解(SVD)进行谱特征提取,使用平方奇异值(σ²)替代传统特征值,增强主导与次主导成分的分离,提升类别间可分性。在最新新冠变异株数据上训练23种基准机器学习模型,实现优异检测性能,验证了该方法的有效性。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Genomic analysis on viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 variants: Beta, Gamma, Delta, and Omicron is heavily dominated by classical bioinformatics methods, including Sequence Alignment, Phylogenetic Analysis, and Mutation Frequency Statistics. These approaches use pairwise codon or nucleotide distance matrices to analyze gene sequences, treating them as linear strings rather than capturing their complex contextual interdependencies. We proposed GenEx, a pipeline that converts raw gene sequences into codon co-occurrence graphs and extracts more than 25 graph features. Our two most prominent techniques for graph generation and feature extraction are MSCG (Multi-Scale Codon Co-occurrence Graph) and LAPCG (Linear-time Adjacency PMI Codon Graph). Using these algorithms, we treated codon sequences as structured symbolic vocabularies interpretable to codon co-occurrence graph analysis, a representational paradigm borrowed from computational linguistics. Another major contribution includes implementing a spectral graph feature extraction using Singular Value Decomposition (SVD), using the squared singular value ($σ^2$) instead of the traditionally used eigenvalue, which helped us to amplify the separation between dominant and subdominant spectral components, thereby enhancing inter-class separability in downstream classification. And to further demonstrate that our method works, we trained 23 benchmarked ML models against the latest SARS-CoV-2 variants, achieving remarkable results in detecting all SARS-CoV-2 variants.

基因组分析图神经网络病毒变异检测

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