Research trends in microarray data analysis: modelling gene regulatory network by integrating transcription factors data / Farzana Kabir Ahmad and Siti Sakira Kamaruddin

The invention of microarray technology has enabled expression levels of thousands of genes to be monitored at once. This modernized approach has created large amount of data to be examined. Recently, gene regulatory network has been an interesting topic and generated impressive research goals in co...

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Main Authors: Kabir Ahmad, Farzana, Kamaruddin, Siti Sakira
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spelling uitm-135802016-05-30T04:57:11Z http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/13580/ Research trends in microarray data analysis: modelling gene regulatory network by integrating transcription factors data / Farzana Kabir Ahmad and Siti Sakira Kamaruddin Kabir Ahmad, Farzana Kamaruddin, Siti Sakira Bayesian statistical decision theory Gene Regulatory Networks Transcription factors The invention of microarray technology has enabled expression levels of thousands of genes to be monitored at once. This modernized approach has created large amount of data to be examined. Recently, gene regulatory network has been an interesting topic and generated impressive research goals in computational biology. Better understanding of the genetic regulatory processes would bring significant implications in the biomedical fields and many other pharmaceutical industries. As a result, various mathematical and computational methods have been used to model gene regulatory network from microarray data. Amongst those methods, the Bayesian network model attracts the most attention and has become the prominent technique since it can capture nonlinear and stochastic relationships between variables. However, structure learning of this model is NP-hard and computationally complex as the number of potential edges increase drastically with the number of genes. In addition, most of the studies only focused on the predicted results while neglecting the fact that microarray data is a fragmented information on the whole biological process. Hence, this study proposed a network-based inference model that combined biological knowledge in order to verify the constructed gene regulatory relationships. The gene regulatory network is constructed using Bayesian network based on low-order conditional independence approach. This technique aims to identify from the data the dependencies to construct the network structure, while addressing the structure learning problem. In addition, three main toolkits such as Ensembl, TFSearch and TRANSFAC have been used to determine the false positive edges and verify reliability of regulatory relationships. The experimental results show that by integrating biological knowledge it could enhance the precision results and reduce the number of false positive edges in the trained gene regulatory network. Institute of Research Management and Innovation (IRMI) 2015 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/13580/1/AJ_FARZANA%20KABIR%20AHMAD%20SRJ%2015.pdf Kabir Ahmad, Farzana and Kamaruddin, Siti Sakira (2015) Research trends in microarray data analysis: modelling gene regulatory network by integrating transcription factors data / Farzana Kabir Ahmad and Siti Sakira Kamaruddin. Scientific Research Journal, 12 (1). pp. 39-50. ISSN 1675-7009
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topic Bayesian statistical decision theory
Gene Regulatory Networks
Transcription factors
spellingShingle Bayesian statistical decision theory
Gene Regulatory Networks
Transcription factors
Kabir Ahmad, Farzana
Kamaruddin, Siti Sakira
Research trends in microarray data analysis: modelling gene regulatory network by integrating transcription factors data / Farzana Kabir Ahmad and Siti Sakira Kamaruddin
description The invention of microarray technology has enabled expression levels of thousands of genes to be monitored at once. This modernized approach has created large amount of data to be examined. Recently, gene regulatory network has been an interesting topic and generated impressive research goals in computational biology. Better understanding of the genetic regulatory processes would bring significant implications in the biomedical fields and many other pharmaceutical industries. As a result, various mathematical and computational methods have been used to model gene regulatory network from microarray data. Amongst those methods, the Bayesian network model attracts the most attention and has become the prominent technique since it can capture nonlinear and stochastic relationships between variables. However, structure learning of this model is NP-hard and computationally complex as the number of potential edges increase drastically with the number of genes. In addition, most of the studies only focused on the predicted results while neglecting the fact that microarray data is a fragmented information on the whole biological process. Hence, this study proposed a network-based inference model that combined biological knowledge in order to verify the constructed gene regulatory relationships. The gene regulatory network is constructed using Bayesian network based on low-order conditional independence approach. This technique aims to identify from the data the dependencies to construct the network structure, while addressing the structure learning problem. In addition, three main toolkits such as Ensembl, TFSearch and TRANSFAC have been used to determine the false positive edges and verify reliability of regulatory relationships. The experimental results show that by integrating biological knowledge it could enhance the precision results and reduce the number of false positive edges in the trained gene regulatory network.
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author Kabir Ahmad, Farzana
Kamaruddin, Siti Sakira
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Kamaruddin, Siti Sakira
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title Research trends in microarray data analysis: modelling gene regulatory network by integrating transcription factors data / Farzana Kabir Ahmad and Siti Sakira Kamaruddin
title_short Research trends in microarray data analysis: modelling gene regulatory network by integrating transcription factors data / Farzana Kabir Ahmad and Siti Sakira Kamaruddin
title_full Research trends in microarray data analysis: modelling gene regulatory network by integrating transcription factors data / Farzana Kabir Ahmad and Siti Sakira Kamaruddin
title_fullStr Research trends in microarray data analysis: modelling gene regulatory network by integrating transcription factors data / Farzana Kabir Ahmad and Siti Sakira Kamaruddin
title_full_unstemmed Research trends in microarray data analysis: modelling gene regulatory network by integrating transcription factors data / Farzana Kabir Ahmad and Siti Sakira Kamaruddin
title_sort research trends in microarray data analysis: modelling gene regulatory network by integrating transcription factors data / farzana kabir ahmad and siti sakira kamaruddin
publisher Institute of Research Management and Innovation (IRMI)
publishDate 2015
url http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/13580/
http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/13580/1/AJ_FARZANA%20KABIR%20AHMAD%20SRJ%2015.pdf
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