期刊
BMC BIOINFORMATICS
卷 23, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s12859-022-05078-y
关键词
Essential genes; Coessentiality network; Functional network; CRISPR
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资金
- NIGMS [R35GM130119]
- NCI Cancer Center Support Grant [P30CA16672]
This study systematically investigates the best practices for generating coessentiality networks from CRISPR knockout data and proposes a partial correlation-based approach for exploring context-dependent interactions.
Background Functional interaction networks, where edges connect genes likely to operate in the same biological process or pathway, can be inferred from CRISPR knockout screens in cancer cell lines. Genes with similar knockout fitness profiles across a sufficiently diverse set of cell line screens are likely to be co-functional, and these coessentiality networks are increasingly powerful predictors of gene function and biological modularity. While several such networks have been published, most use different algorithms for each step of the network construction process. Results In this study, we identify an optimal measure of functional interaction and test all combinations of options at each step-essentiality scoring, sample variance and covariance normalization, and similarity measurement-to identify best practices for generating a functional interaction network from CRISPR knockout data. We show that Bayes Factor and Ceres scores give the best results, that Ceres outperforms the newer Chronos scoring scheme, and that covariance normalization is a critical step in network construction. We further show that Pearson correlation, mathematically identical to ordinary least squares after covariance normalization, can be extended by using partial correlation to detect and amplify signals from moonlighting proteins which show context-dependent interaction with different partners. Conclusions We describe a systematic survey of methods for generating coessentiality networks from the Cancer Dependency Map data and provide a partial correlation-based approach for exploring context-dependent interactions.
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