Training Tissue-specific Gene Embeddings on GTEx Data

The gene embedding training code is available from https://github.com/nanxstats/exp2vec. The Shiny app is at https://nanx.shinyapps.io/exp2vec/, with code available from https://github.com/nanxstats/exp2vec-shiny. Photo by Amy Shamblen. Background We can often observe a mysterious connection between natural languages and the human genome when count data is derived from them. It is also straightforward to model them using the latest statistical or machine learning approaches developed for each field and borrow ideas from each …