Analysing the meta-interaction between pathways by gene set topological impact analysis
Open Access
- 27 October 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in BMC Genomics
- Vol. 21 (1), 1-12
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-020-07148-y
Abstract
Pathway analysis is widely applied in transcriptome analysis. Given certain transcriptomic changes, current pathway analysis tools tend to search for the most impacted pathways, which provides insight into underlying biological mechanisms. Further refining of the enriched pathways and extracting functional modules by “crosstalk” analysis have been proposed. However, the upstream/downstream relationships between the modules, which may provide extra biological insights such as the coordination of different functional modules and the signal transduction flow have been ignored. To quantitatively analyse the upstream/downstream relationships between functional modules, we developed a novel GEne Set Topological Impact Analysis (GESTIA), which could be used to assemble the enriched pathways and functional modules into a super-module with a topological structure. We showed the advantages of this analysis in the exploration of extra biological insight in addition to the individual enriched pathways and functional modules. GESTIA can be applied to a broad range of pathway/module analysis result. We hope that GESTIA may help researchers to get one additional step closer to understanding the molecular mechanism from the pathway/module analysis results.Keywords
Funding Information
- Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China (2018ZX09201009)
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