scholarly journals Network Completion for Static Gene Expression Data

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natsu Nakajima ◽  
Tatsuya Akutsu

We tackle the problem of completing and inferring genetic networks under stationary conditions from static data, where network completion is to make the minimum amount of modifications to an initial network so that the completed network is most consistent with the expression data in which addition of edges and deletion of edges are basic modification operations. For this problem, we present a new method for network completion using dynamic programming and least-squares fitting. This method can find an optimal solution in polynomial time if the maximum indegree of the network is bounded by a constant. We evaluate the effectiveness of our method through computational experiments using synthetic data. Furthermore, we demonstrate that our proposed method can distinguish the differences between two types of genetic networks under stationary conditions from lung cancer and normal gene expression data.

2003 ◽  
Vol 31 (6) ◽  
pp. 1516-1518 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Husmeier

This paper provides a brief introduction to learning Bayesian networks from gene-expression data. The method is contrasted with other approaches to the reverse engineering of biochemical networks, and the Bayesian learning paradigm is briefly described. The article demonstrates an application to a simple synthetic toy problem and evaluates the inference performance in terms of ROC (receiver operator characteristic) curves.


Author(s):  
Ramon Viñas ◽  
Helena Andrés-Terré ◽  
Pietro Liò ◽  
Kevin Bryson

Abstract Motivation High-throughput gene expression can be used to address a wide range of fundamental biological problems, but datasets of an appropriate size are often unavailable. Moreover, existing transcriptomics simulators have been criticized because they fail to emulate key properties of gene expression data. In this article, we develop a method based on a conditional generative adversarial network to generate realistic transcriptomics data for Escherichia coli and humans. We assess the performance of our approach across several tissues and cancer-types. Results We show that our model preserves several gene expression properties significantly better than widely used simulators, such as SynTReN or GeneNetWeaver. The synthetic data preserve tissue- and cancer-specific properties of transcriptomics data. Moreover, it exhibits real gene clusters and ontologies both at local and global scales, suggesting that the model learns to approximate the gene expression manifold in a biologically meaningful way. Availability and implementation Code is available at: https://github.com/rvinas/adversarial-gene-expression. Supplementary information Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.


2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniele Ferone ◽  
Angelo Facchiano ◽  
Anna Marabotti ◽  
Paola Festa

The term biclustering stands for simultaneous clustering of both genes and conditions. This task has generated considerable interest over the past few decades, particularly related to the analysis of high-dimensional gene expression data in information retrieval, knowledge discovery, and data mining [1]. Since the problem has been shown to be NP-complete, we have recently designed and implemented a GRASP metaheuristic [2,3,4]. The greedy criterion used in the construction phase uses the Euclidean distance to build spanning trees of the graph representing the input data matrix. Once obtained a complete solution, the local search procedure tries to both enlarge the current solution and to improve its H-score exchanging rows and columns. The proposed approach has been tested on 5 synthetic datasets [5]: 1) constant biclusters; 2) constant, upregulated biclusters; 3) shift-scale biclusters; 4) shift biclusters, and 5) scale biclusters. Compared with state-of-the-art competitors, its behaviour is excellent on shift datasets and is very good on all other datasets except for scaled ones. In order to improve its behaviour on scaled data as well and to reduce running times, we have designed and preliminarily tested a variant of the existing GRASP, whose local search phase returns an approximate local optimal solution. The resulting algorithm promises to be a more efficient, general, and robust method for the biclustering of all kinds of possible biological data.


2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniele Ferone ◽  
Angelo Facchiano ◽  
Anna Marabotti ◽  
Paola Festa

The term biclustering stands for simultaneous clustering of both genes and conditions. This task has generated considerable interest over the past few decades, particularly related to the analysis of high-dimensional gene expression data in information retrieval, knowledge discovery, and data mining [1]. Since the problem has been shown to be NP-complete, we have recently designed and implemented a GRASP metaheuristic [2,3,4]. The greedy criterion used in the construction phase uses the Euclidean distance to build spanning trees of the graph representing the input data matrix. Once obtained a complete solution, the local search procedure tries to both enlarge the current solution and to improve its H-score exchanging rows and columns. The proposed approach has been tested on 5 synthetic datasets [5]: 1) constant biclusters; 2) constant, upregulated biclusters; 3) shift-scale biclusters; 4) shift biclusters, and 5) scale biclusters. Compared with state-of-the-art competitors, its behaviour is excellent on shift datasets and is very good on all other datasets except for scaled ones. In order to improve its behaviour on scaled data as well and to reduce running times, we have designed and preliminarily tested a variant of the existing GRASP, whose local search phase returns an approximate local optimal solution. The resulting algorithm promises to be a more efficient, general, and robust method for the biclustering of all kinds of possible biological data.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evgenia Chunikhina ◽  
Paul Logan ◽  
Yevgeniy Kovchegov ◽  
Anatoly Yambartsev ◽  
Debashis Mondal ◽  
...  

AbstractOmics technologies are powerful tools for analyzing patterns in gene expression data for thousands of genes. Due to a number of systematic variations in experiments, the raw gene expression data is often obfuscated by undesirable technical noises. Various normalization techniques were designed in an attempt to remove these non-biological errors prior to any statistical analysis. One of the reasons for normalizing data is the need for recovering the covariance matrix used in gene network analysis. In this paper, we introduce a novel normalization technique, called the covariance shift (C-SHIFT) method. This normalization algorithm uses optimization techniques together with the blessing of dimensionality philosophy and energy minimization hypothesis for covariance matrix recovery under additive noise (in biology, known as the bias). Thus, it is perfectly suited for the analysis of logarithmic gene expression data. Numerical experiments on synthetic data demonstrate the method’s advantage over the classical normalization techniques. Namely, the comparison is made with rank, quantile, cyclic LOESS (locally estimated scatterplot smoothing), and MAD (median absolute deviation) normalization methods.


2019 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 117793221983940 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haitao Zhao ◽  
Zhong-Hui Duan

The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) provides a rich resource that can be used to understand how genes interact in cancer cells and has collected RNA-Seq gene expression data for many types of human cancer. However, mining the data to uncover the hidden gene-interaction patterns remains a challenge. Gaussian graphical model (GGM) is often used to learn genetic networks because it defines an undirected graphical structure, revealing the conditional dependences of genes. In this study, we focus on inferring gene interactions in 15 specific types of human cancer using RNA-Seq expression data and GGM with graphical lasso. We take advantage of the corresponding Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes pathway maps to define the subsets of related genes. RNA-Seq expression levels of the subsets of genes in solid cancerous tumor and normal tissues were extracted from TCGA. The gene expression data sets were cleaned and formatted, and the genetic network corresponding to each cancer type was then inferred using GGM with graphical lasso. The inferred networks reveal stable conditional dependences among the genes at the expression level and confirm the essential roles played by the genes that encode proteins involved in the two key signaling pathway phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K)/AKT/mTOR and Ras/Raf/MEK/ERK in human carcinogenesis. These stable dependences elucidate the expression level interactions among the genes that are implicated in many different human cancers. The inferred genetic networks were examined to further identify and characterize a collection of gene interactions that are unique to cancer. The cross-cancer genetic interactions revealed from our study provide another set of knowledge for cancer biologists to propose strong hypotheses, so further biological investigations can be conducted effectively.


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