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PhyClone: accurate Bayesian reconstruction of cancer phylogenies from bulk sequencing

2025· article· en· W4411279248 on OpenAlexafffund
Emilia Hurtado, Alexandre Bouchard‐Côté, Andrew Roth

Bibliographic record

VenueBioinformatics · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicCancer Genomics and Diagnostics
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British ColumbiaBC Cancer Agency
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaBC Cancer FoundationMichael Smith Health Research BC
KeywordsBayesian probabilityComputer scienceComputational biologyDNA sequencingBiologyArtificial intelligenceGeneticsGene

Abstract

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MOTIVATION: Cancer is driven by somatic mutations that result in the expansion of genomically distinct sub-populations of cells called clones. Identifying the clonal composition of tumours and understanding the evolutionary relationships between clones is a crucial task in cancer genomics. Bulk DNA sequencing is commonly used for studying the clonal composition of tumours, but it is challenging to infer the genetic relationship between different clones due to the mixture of different cell populations. RESULTS: In this work, we introduce a new probabilistic model called PhyClone that can infer clonal phylogenies from bulk-sequencing data. We demonstrate the performance of PhyClone on simulated and real-world datasets and show that it outperforms previous methods in terms of accuracy and sample scalability. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: Source code is available on Github at: https://github.com/Roth-Lab/PhyClone under the GPL v3.0 license.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.006
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.022
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: Methods
Teacher disagreement score0.009
Threshold uncertainty score0.032

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0060.022
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.003
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0030.003
Open science0.0040.003
Research integrity0.0030.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.004

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.010
GPT teacher head0.253
Teacher spread0.243 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreMethods

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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