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Improving GAN-Generated Splice Site Sequences Through Conditional Frequency Guidance
Kabanga, Espoir; De Neve, Wesley; Van Messem, Arnout
2026ICBCB 2026
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Keywords :
GAN; frequency blending; splice sites
Abstract :
[en] Generative adversarial networks (GANs) struggle to capture position-specific nucleotide constraints that define splice site identity. We present a frequency-blended framework that guides GAN synthesis by linearly combining model predictions with conditional empirical priors. We evaluate synthetic donor and acceptor splice sites from Arabidopsis thaliana and Homo sapiens through direct biological assessments (3-mer context and sequence logo) and functional validation using SpliceRover, a state-of-the-art splice site classifier. Our results show that frequency blending substantially improves biological fidelity and predictive performance compared to unguided generation, recovering position-specific motifs that GANs systematically miss. Data augmentation with 50% real and 50% frequencyblended synthetic sequences achieves baseline-level predictive performance, effectively halving real genomic data requirements while maintaining state-of-the-art classification accuracy.
Disciplines :
Computer science
Biotechnology
Genetics & genetic processes
Author, co-author :
Kabanga, Espoir
De Neve, Wesley
Van Messem, Arnout  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Mathematics
Language :
English
Title :
Improving GAN-Generated Splice Site Sequences Through Conditional Frequency Guidance
Publication date :
2026
Event name :
ICBCB 2026
Event place :
Fukuoka, Japan
Event date :
March 26-29, 2026
Audience :
International
Peer review/Selection committee :
Peer reviewed
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