GENE REGULATORY NETWORK RECONSTRUCTION BY BAYESIAN INTEGRATION OF PRIOR KNOWLEDGE AND/OR DIFFERENT EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS
- 1 June 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by World Scientific Pub Co Pte Ltd in Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
- Vol. 06 (03), 543-572
- https://doi.org/10.1142/s0219720008003539
Abstract
There have been various attempts to improve the reconstruction of gene regulatory networks from microarray data by the systematic integration of biological prior knowledge. Our approach is based on pioneering work by Imoto et al.11where the prior knowledge is expressed in terms of energy functions, from which a prior distribution over network structures is obtained in the form of a Gibbs distribution. The hyperparameters of this distribution represent the weights associated with the prior knowledge relative to the data. We have derived and tested a Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) scheme for sampling networks and hyperparameters simultaneously from the posterior distribution, thereby automatically learning how to trade off information from the prior knowledge and the data. We have extended this approach to a Bayesian coupling scheme for learning gene regulatory networks from a combination of related data sets, which were obtained under different experimental conditions and are therefore potentially associated with different active subpathways. The proposed coupling scheme is a compromise between (1) learning networks from the different subsets separately, whereby no information between the different experiments is shared; and (2) learning networks from a monolithic fusion of the individual data sets, which does not provide any mechanism for uncovering differences between the network structures associated with the different experimental conditions. We have assessed the viability of all proposed methods on data related to the Raf signaling pathway, generated both synthetically and in cytometry experiments.Keywords
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