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Xinming Tu
University of WashingtonORCID 0009-0004-0833-6876Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints
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2019-2026 · peak 3/yrCo-Author Collaboration Network
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- GenomicsNature MethodsPeer-reviewed
A scalable approach to investigating sequence-to-function predictions from personal genomes
Anna E. Spiro, Xinming Tu, Yilun Sheng…·Sara Mostafavi
This paper introduces SAGE-net, a framework for training sequence-to-function models using personal genomes, showing improved gene expression prediction but limited generalization, while DNA methylation shows better generalization.
10 citationstop 1% - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
A modality gap in personal-genome prediction by sequence-to-function models
Sara Mostafavi, Xinming Tu, Anna E. Spiro, Maria D. Chikina
The paper evaluates AlphaGenome's performance in predicting gene expression and chromatin accessibility from personal genomes, finding it excels in accessibility but struggles with gene expression.
4 citations - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
Deep genomic models of allele-specific measurements
Xinming Tu, Alexander Sasse, Kaitavjeet Chowdhary…·Sara Mostafavi
This paper introduces DeepAllele, a deep learning model for allele-specific gene regulation analysis, showing improved detection of cis-regulatory elements in F1 hybrid mice immune cells.
3 citations - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
Investigating Data Size, Sequence Diversity, and Model Complexity in MPRA-based Sequence-to-Function Prediction
Yilun Sheng, Xinming Tu, Sara Mostafavi
The paper creates a curated MPRA dataset collection and builds sequence-to-function models to analyze how data size, diversity, and model complexity affect predictive performance.
DOI 10.1101/2025.03.11.642630 - GenomicsNature BiotechnologyPeer-reviewed
Evaluation and optimization of sequence-based gene regulatory deep learning models
Abdul Muntakim Rafi, Daria Nogina, Dmitry Penzar…·Carl G. de Boer
The paper evaluates and optimizes sequence-based gene regulatory deep learning models using a DREAM Challenge dataset, showing improvements through architectural and training strategy refinements.
50 citationstop 2% - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
A Supervised Contrastive Framework for Learning Disentangled Representations of Cell Perturbation Data
Xinming Tu, Jan-Christian Hütter, Zitong Jerry Wang…·Romain Lopez
This paper introduces SC-VAE, a supervised contrastive framework for analyzing cell perturbation data, showing improved sensitivity in detecting perturbation effects compared to existing methods.
- BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
Spatial-linked alignment tool (SLAT) for aligning heterogenous slices properly
Chen‐Rui Xia, Zhi‐Jie Cao, Xinming Tu, Ge Gao
SLAT aligns heterogeneous spatial omics data by integrating omics profiles and spatial context, improving cell-typing resolution and regulatory inference.
- BioinformaticsBriefings in BioinformaticsPeer-reviewed
Identifying complex motifs in massive omics data with a variable-convolutional layer in deep neural network
Jingyi Li, Jin Shen, Xinming Tu…·Ge Gao
The paper introduces a variable-convolutional layer for motif identification in omics data, showing improved performance over standard convolutional layers.
6 citations - BioinformaticsBioinformaticsPeer-reviewed
Expectation pooling: An effective and interpretable pooling method for predicting DNA-protein binding
Xiao Luo, Xinming Tu, Yang Ding…·Minghua Deng
This paper introduces expectation pooling, an interpretable CNN pooling method that improves DNA-protein binding prediction by combining probabilistic ideas with deep learning.
39 citations - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
An exact transformation for CNN kernel enables accurate sequence motif identification and leads to a potentially full probabilistic interpretation of CNN
Yang Ding, Jingyi Li, Meng Wang…·Ge Gao
This paper introduces an exact transformation to convert CNN kernels to PWMs, enabling accurate motif identification and preserving CNN performance.