Global and threshold-free transcriptional regulatory networks reconstruction through integrating ChIP-Chip and expression data
Liu, Qi, Yang, Yi, Li, Yixue and Zhang, Zili 2011, Global and threshold-free transcriptional regulatory networks reconstruction through integrating ChIP-Chip and expression data, Current protein and peptide science, vol. 12, no. 7, pp. 631-642.
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Global and threshold-free transcriptional regulatory networks reconstruction through integrating ChIP-Chip and expression data
Inferring transcriptional regulatory networks from high-throughput biological data is a major challenge to bioinformatics today. To address this challenge, we developed TReNGO (Transcriptional Regulatory Networks reconstruction based on Global Optimization), a global and threshold-free algorithm with simulated annealing for inferring regulatory networks by the integration of ChIP-chip and expression data. Superior to existing methods, TReNGO was expected to find the optimal structure of transcriptional regulatory networks without any arbitrary thresholds or predetermined number of transcriptional modules (TMs). TReNGO was applied to both synthetic data and real yeast data in the rapamycin response. In these applications, we demonstrated an improved functional coherence of TMs and TF (transcription factor)- target predictions by TReNGO when compared to GRAM, COGRIM or to analyzing ChIP-chip data alone. We also demonstrated the ability of TReNGO to discover unexpected biological processes that TFs may be involved in and to also identify interesting novel combinations of TFs.
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089999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
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970108 Expanding Knowledge in the Information and Computing Sciences