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+# OmiVAE
+***Please check the updated version of OmiVAE:***
+[OmiEmbed](https://github.com/zhangxiaoyu11/OmiEmbed)
+
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+
+**OmiVAE: Integrated Multi-omics Analysis Using Variational Autoencoders**
+
+**Xiaoyu Zhang** (x.zhang18@imperial.ac.uk)
+
+Data Science Institute, Imperial College London
+
+## Introduction
+
+OmiVAE is an end-to-end deep learning model for low dimensional latent space extraction and multi-class classification on multi-omics datasets.
+
+Accepted by 2019 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (**IEEE BIBM 2019**)
+
+Paper Link: [arXiv](https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.06278)
+
+## Citation
+If you use this code for your research, please cite our paper.
+```bibtex
+@inproceedings{OmiVAE2019,
+  title={Integrated Multi-omics Analysis Using Variational Autoencoders: Application to Pan-cancer Classification},
+  author={Zhang, Xiaoyu and Zhang, Jingqing and Sun, Kai and Yang, Xian and Dai, Chengliang and Guo, Yike},
+  booktitle={Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), 2019 IEEE International Conference on},
+  year={2019}
+}
+```
+
+## OmiEmbed
+***Please check the updated version of OmiVAE***:
+[OmiEmbed](https://github.com/zhangxiaoyu11/OmiEmbed)
+
+## License
+This source code is licensed under the [MIT](https://github.com/zhangxiaoyu11/OmiVAE/blob/master/LICENSE) license.
+