Data-driven human transcriptomic modules determined by independent component analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Analyzing the human transcriptome is crucial in advancing precision medicine, and the plethora of over half a million human microarray samples in the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) has enabled us to better characterize biological processes at the molecular level. However, transcriptomic analysis is challenging because the data is inherently noisy and high-dimensional. Gene set analysis is currently widely used to alleviate the issue of high dimensionality, but the user-defined choice of gene sets can introduce biasness in results. In this paper, we advocate the use of a fixed set of transcriptomic modules for such analysis. We apply independent component analysis to the large collection of microarray data in GEO in order to discover reproducible transcriptomic modules tha

SUBMITTER: Zhou W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6142401 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature