GRAPH CONVOLUTION BASED GENE PRIORITIZATION ON HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS

This disclosure relates generally to method and system for graph convolution based gene prioritization on heterogeneous networks. The method includes obtaining a set of entities for human rare diseases from one or more sources containing rare diseases, genes, phenotypes for rare diseases and biological pathways and constructing an initial heterogeneous network using each of an entity from the set of entities. the initial heterogeneous network applying Graph Convolution-based Association Scoring (GCAS) to the initial heterogeneous network to derive inferred associations and creating a Heterogeneous Association Network for Rare Diseases (HANRD) by adding the inferred associations to the initial heterogeneous network and generating a prioritized set of genes for an input query being received in the HANRD.