Incorporating prior knowledge into Gene Network Study.

ABSTRACT:

Motivation

A major goal in genomic research is to identify genes that may jointly influence a biological response. From many years of intensive biomedical research, a large body of biological knowledge, or pathway information, has accumulated in available databases. There is a strong interest in leveraging these pathways to improve the statistical power and interpretability in studying gene networks associated with complex phenotypes. This prior information is a valuable complement to large-scale genomic data such as gene expression data generated from microarrays. However, it is a non-trivial task to effectively integrate available biological knowledge into gene expression data when reconstructing gene networks.

Results

In this article, we developed and applied a Lasso meth

SUBMITTER: Wang Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3789546 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature