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Gene Regulatory Network Inferences Using a Maximum-Relevance and Maximum-Significance Strategy

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PLOS ONE
卷 11, 期 11, 页码 -

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PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0166115

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  1. National Nature Science Foundation of China [11171369, 61272395, 61370171, 61300128, 61472127, 61572178]
  2. National Nature Science Foundation of Hunan Province [12JJ2041]
  3. Planned Science and Technology Project of Hunan Province [2014FJ3079]

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Recovering gene regulatory networks from expression data is a challenging problem in systems biology that provides valuable information on the regulatory mechanisms of cells. A number of algorithms based on computational models are currently used to recover network topology. However, most of these algorithms have limitations. For example, many models tend to be complicated because of the large p, small n problem. In this paper, we propose a novel regulatory network inference method called the maximum-relevance and maximum-significance network (MRMSn) method, which converts the problem of recovering networks into a problem of how to select the regulator genes for each gene. To solve the latter problem, we present an algorithm that is based on information theory and selects the regulator genes for a specific gene by maximizing the relevance and significance. A first-order incremental search algorithm is used to search for regulator genes. Eventually, a strict constraint is adopted to adjust all of the regulatory relationships according to the obtained regulator genes and thus obtain the complete network structure. We performed our method on five different datasets and compared our method to five state-of-the-art methods for network inference based on information theory. The results confirm the effectiveness of our method.

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