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BMC GENOMICS
卷 13, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-170
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- Netherlands Genomics Initiative (NGI)
- Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre (NBIC)
- NGI (as part of the Kluyver Centre for Genomics of Industrial Fermentation)
Background: Linking phenotypes to high-throughput molecular biology information generated by similar to omics technologies allows revealing cellular mechanisms underlying an organism's phenotype. similar to Omics datasets are often very large and noisy with many features (e. g., genes, metabolite abundances). Thus, associating phenotypes to similar to omics data requires an approach that is robust to noise and can handle large and diverse data sets. Results: We developed a web-tool PhenoLink (http://bamics2.cmbi.ru.nl/websoftware/phenolink/) that links phenotype to similar to omics data sets using well-established as well new techniques. PhenoLink imputes missing values and preprocesses input data (i) to decrease inherent noise in the data and (ii) to counterbalance pitfalls of the Random Forest algorithm, on which feature (e. g., gene) selection is based. Preprocessed data is used in feature (e. g., gene) selection to identify relations to phenotypes. We applied PhenoLink to identify gene-phenotype relations based on the presence/absence of 2847 genes in 42 Lactobacillus plantarum strains and phenotypic measurements of these strains in several experimental conditions, including growth on sugars and nitrogen-dioxide production. Genes were ranked based on their importance (predictive value) to correctly predict the phenotype of a given strain. In addition to known gene to phenotype relations we also found novel relations. Conclusions: PhenoLink is an easily accessible web-tool to facilitate identifying relations from large and often noisy phenotype and similar to omics datasets. Visualization of links to phenotypes offered in PhenoLink allows prioritizing links, finding relations between features, finding relations between phenotypes, and identifying outliers in phenotype data. PhenoLink can be used to uncover phenotype links to a multitude of similar to omics data, e. g., gene presence/absence (determined by e. g.: CGH or next-generation sequencing), gene expression (determined by e. g.: microarrays or RNA-seq), or metabolite abundance (determined by e. g.: GC-MS).
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