期刊
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
卷 16, 期 10, 页码 25897-25911出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijms161025897
关键词
pain; R software; bioinformatics; data modeling; molecular mechanisms
资金
- Landesoffensive zur Entwicklung wissenschaftlich-okonomischer Exzellenz (LOEWE), LOEWE-Zentrum fur Translationale Medizin und Pharmakologie
- Else Kroner-Fresenius Foundation (EKFS), Research Training Group Translational Research Innovation-Pharma (TRIP)
- European Union [602919]
Biomedical data obtained during cell experiments, laboratory animal research, or human studies often display a complex distribution. Statistical identification of subgroups in research data poses an analytical challenge. Here were introduce an interactive R-based bioinformatics tool, called AdaptGauss. It enables a valid identification of a biologically-meaningful multimodal structure in the data by fitting a Gaussian mixture model (GMM) to the data. The interface allows a supervised selection of the number of subgroups. This enables the expectation maximization (EM) algorithm to adapt more complex GMM than usually observed with a noninteractive approach. Interactively fitting a GMM to heat pain threshold data acquired from human volunteers revealed a distribution pattern with four Gaussian modes located at temperatures of 32.3, 37.2, 41.4, and 45.4 degrees C. Noninteractive fitting was unable to identify a meaningful data structure. Obtained results are compatible with known activity temperatures of different TRP ion channels suggesting the mechanistic contribution of different heat sensors to the perception of thermal pain. Thus, sophisticated analysis of the modal structure of biomedical data provides a basis for the mechanistic interpretation of the observations. As it may reflect the involvement of different TRP thermosensory ion channels, the analysis provides a starting point for hypothesis-driven laboratory experiments.
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