Kabir, Md Humayun and Patrick, Ralph and Ho, Joshua W K and O’Connor, Michael D (2018) Identification of active signaling pathways by integrating gene expression and protein interaction data. BMC Systems Biology, 12 (S9). pp.77-87. ISSN 1752-0509 (Gold OA)
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Abstract
BACKGROUND:
Signaling pathways are the key biological mechanisms that transduce extracellular signals to affect transcription factor mediated gene regulation within cells. A number of computational methods have been developed to identify the topological structure of a specific signaling pathway using protein-protein interaction data, but they are not designed for identifying active signaling pathways in an unbiased manner. On the other hand, there are statistical methods based on gene sets or pathway data that can prioritize likely active signaling pathways, but they do not make full use of active pathway structure that link receptor, kinases and downstream transcription factors.
RESULTS:
Here, we present a method to simultaneously predict the set of active signaling pathways, together with their pathway structure, by integrating protein-protein interaction network and gene expression data. We evaluated the capacity for our method to predict active signaling pathways for dental epithelial cells, ocular lens epithelial cells, human pluripotent stem cell-derived lens epithelial cells, and lens fiber cells. This analysis showed our approach could identify all the known active pathways that are associated with tooth formation and lens development.
CONCLUSIONS:
The results suggest that SPAGI can be a useful approach to identify the potential active signaling pathways given a gene expression profile. Our method is implemented as an open source R package, available via https://github.com/VCCRI/SPAGI/.
From 29th International Conference on Genome Informatics Yunnan, China. 3-5 December 2018
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > R Medicine (General) |
| Depositing User: | Repository Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Jan 2019 04:40 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Jan 2019 04:40 |
| URI: | https://eprints.victorchang.edu.au/id/eprint/784 |
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