Prediction of high centrality nodes from reverse-engineered transcriptional regulator networks

• The prioritization of genes based on their centrality in biological networkshas emerged as a promising technique for the prediction of phenotype related genes.A number of methods have been developed to derive one such type of network, i.e.transcriptional regulatory networks, from expression data. In order to reliably prioritizegenes from such networks, it is crucial to investigate how well the inferencemethods reconstruct the centralities that exist in the true biological system. We haverecently reported that the correlation of centrality rankings between reference andinferred networks is only modest when using an unbiased inference approach. In thisstudy we extend on these results and demonstrate that the correlation remains modestalso when using a biased inference utilizing a priori information about transcriptionfactors. However, we show further that despite this lack of a strong correlation, theinferred networks still allow a signicant prediction of genes with high centralities inthe reference networks.

Ämnesord

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Data- och informationsvetenskap -- Bioinformatik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Computer and Information Sciences -- Bioinformatics (hsv//eng)

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Matematik -- Sannolikhetsteori och statistik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Mathematics -- Probability Theory and Statistics (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Transcriptional network inference

network inference

graph centrality

degree

betweenness.

Mathematics/Applied Mathematics

matematik/tillämpad matematik

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