Efficient proximal gradient algorithm for inference of differential gene networks.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Gene networks in living cells can change depending on various conditions such as caused by different environments, tissue types, disease states, and development stages. Identifying the differential changes in gene networks is very important to understand molecular basis of various biological process. While existing algorithms can be used to infer two gene networks separately from gene expression data under two different conditions, and then to identify network changes, such an approach does not exploit the similarity between two gene networks, and it is thus suboptimal. A desirable approach would be clearly to infer two gene networks jointly, which can yield improved estimates of network changes.

Results

In this paper, we developed a proximal gradient algorithm fo

SUBMITTER: Wang C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6498668 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature