Journal
JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY
Volume 14, Issue 7, Pages 927-949Publisher
MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC
DOI: 10.1089/cmb.2007.0015
Keywords
combinatorial optimization; signal transduction networks; systems biology
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In this paper, we introduce a new method of combined synthesis and inference of biological signal transduction networks. A main idea of our method lies in representing observed causal relationships as network paths and using techniques from combinatorial optimization to find the sparsest graph consistent with all experimental observations. Our contributions are twofold: (a) We formalize our approach, study its computational complexity and prove new results for exact and approximate solutions of the computationally hard transitive reduction substep of the approach (Sections 2 and 5). (b) We validate the biological usability of our approach by successfully applying it to a previously published signal transduction network by Li et al. (2006) and show that our algorithm for the transitive reduction substep performs well on graphs with a structure similar to those observed in transcriptional regulatory and signal transduction networks.
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