4.6 Article

A Novel Method of Gene Regulatory Network Structure Inference from Gene Knock-Out Expression Data

Journal

TSINGHUA SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Volume 24, Issue 4, Pages 446-455

Publisher

TSINGHUA UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.26599/TST.2018.9010097

Keywords

gene regulatory networks; network inference; path consistency algorithm

Funding

  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [61622213, 61732009]
  2. 111 Project [B18059]
  3. Hunan Provincial Science and Technology Program [2018WK4001]

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Inferring Gene Regulatory Networks (GRNs) structure from gene expression data has been a challenging problem in systems biology. It is critical to identify complicated regulatory relationships among genes for understanding regulatory mechanisms in cells. Various methods based on information theory have been developed to infer GRNs. However, these methods introduce many redundant regulatory relationships in the network inference process due to external noise in the original data, topology sparseness in the network structure, and non-linear dependency among genes. Especially as the network size increases, the performance of these methods decreases dramatically. In this paper, a novel network structure inference method named Loc-PCA-CMI is proposed that first identifies local overlapped gene clusters, and then infers the local network structure for each cluster by a Path Consistency Algorithm based on Conditional Mutual Information (PCA-CMI). The final structure of the GRN is denoted as dependence among genes by an ensemble of the obtained local network structures. Loc-PCA-CMI was evaluated on DREAM3 knock-out datasets, and its performance was compared to other information theory-based network inference methods including ARACNE, MRNET, PCA-CMI, and PCA-PMI. Experimental results demonstrate our novel method Loc-PCA-CMI outperforms the other four methods in DREAM3 datasets especially in size 50 and 100 networks.

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