Shohag Barman1, Yung-Keun Kwon1. 1. School of Electrical Engineering, University of Ulsan, Daehak-ro, Nam-gu, Ulsan, Republic of Korea.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Inferring a gene regulatory network from time-series gene expression data in systems biology is a challenging problem. Many methods have been suggested, most of which have a scalability limitation due to the combinatorial cost of searching a regulatory set of genes. In addition, they have focused on the accurate inference of a network structure only. Therefore, there is a pressing need to develop a network inference method to search regulatory genes efficiently and to predict the network dynamics accurately. RESULTS: In this study, we employed a Boolean network model with a restricted update rule scheme to capture coarse-grained dynamics, and propose a novel mutual information-based Boolean network inference (MIBNI) method. Given time-series gene expression data as an input, the method first identifies a set of initial regulatory genes using mutual information-based feature selection, and then improves the dynamics prediction accuracy by iteratively swapping a pair of genes between sets of the selected regulatory genes and the other genes. Through extensive simulations with artificial datasets, MIBNI showed consistently better performance than six well-known existing methods, REVEAL, Best-Fit, RelNet, CST, CLR, and BIBN in terms of both structural and dynamics prediction accuracy. We further tested the proposed method with two real gene expression datasets for an Escherichia coli gene regulatory network and a fission yeast cell cycle network, and also observed better results using MIBNI compared to the six other methods. CONCLUSIONS: Taken together, MIBNI is a promising tool for predicting both the structure and the dynamics of a gene regulatory network.
BACKGROUND: Inferring a gene regulatory network from time-series gene expression data in systems biology is a challenging problem. Many methods have been suggested, most of which have a scalability limitation due to the combinatorial cost of searching a regulatory set of genes. In addition, they have focused on the accurate inference of a network structure only. Therefore, there is a pressing need to develop a network inference method to search regulatory genes efficiently and to predict the network dynamics accurately. RESULTS: In this study, we employed a Boolean network model with a restricted update rule scheme to capture coarse-grained dynamics, and propose a novel mutual information-based Boolean network inference (MIBNI) method. Given time-series gene expression data as an input, the method first identifies a set of initial regulatory genes using mutual information-based feature selection, and then improves the dynamics prediction accuracy by iteratively swapping a pair of genes between sets of the selected regulatory genes and the other genes. Through extensive simulations with artificial datasets, MIBNI showed consistently better performance than six well-known existing methods, REVEAL, Best-Fit, RelNet, CST, CLR, and BIBN in terms of both structural and dynamics prediction accuracy. We further tested the proposed method with two real gene expression datasets for an Escherichia coli gene regulatory network and a fission yeast cell cycle network, and also observed better results using MIBNI compared to the six other methods. CONCLUSIONS: Taken together, MIBNI is a promising tool for predicting both the structure and the dynamics of a gene regulatory network.
Authors: Robert J Prill; Daniel Marbach; Julio Saez-Rodriguez; Peter K Sorger; Leonidas G Alexopoulos; Xiaowei Xue; Neil D Clarke; Gregoire Altan-Bonnet; Gustavo Stolovitzky Journal: PLoS One Date: 2010-02-23 Impact factor: 3.240
Authors: Benafsh Husain; Allison R Hickman; Yuqing Hang; Benjamin T Shealy; Karan Sapra; F Alex Feltus Journal: G3 (Bethesda) Date: 2020-09-02 Impact factor: 3.154