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WMDS.net: a network control framework for identifying key players in transcriptome programs.

ABSTRACT:

Motivation

Mammalian cells can be transcriptionally reprogramed to other cellular phenotypes. Controllability of such complex transitions in transcriptional networks underlying cellular phenotypes is an inherent biological characteristic. This network controllability can be interpreted by operating a few key regulators to guide the transcriptional program from one state to another. Finding the key regulators in the transcriptional program can provide key insights into the network state transition underlying cellular phenotypes.

Results

To address this challenge, here, we proposed to identify the key regulators in the transcriptional co-expression network as a minimum dominating set (MDS) of driver nodes that can fully control the network state transition. Based on the theory of structural controllability, we developed a weighted MDS network model (WMDS.net) to find the driver nodes of differential gene co-expression networks. The weight of WMDS.net integrates the degree of nodes in the network and the significance of gene co-expression difference between two physiological states into the measurement of node controllability of the transcriptional network. To confirm its validity, we applied WMDS.net to the discovery of cancer driver genes in RNA-seq datasets from The Cancer Genome Atlas. WMDS.net is powerful among various cancer datasets and outperformed the other top-tier tools with a better balance between precision and recall.

Availability and implementation

https://github.com/chaofen123/WMDS.net.

Supplementary information

Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

SUBMITTER: Cheng X

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9925106 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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WMDS.net: a network control framework for identifying key players in transcriptome programs.

Cheng Xiang X Amanullah Md M Liu Weigang W Liu Yi Y Pan Xiaoqing X Zhang Honghe H Xu Haiming H Liu Pengyuan P Lu Yan Y

Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) 20230201 2

<h4>Motivation</h4>Mammalian cells can be transcriptionally reprogramed to other cellular phenotypes. Controllability of such complex transitions in transcriptional networks underlying cellular phenotypes is an inherent biological characteristic. This network controllability can be interpreted by operating a few key regulators to guide the transcriptional program from one state to another. Finding the key regulators in the transcriptional program can provide key insights into the network state t ...[more]

PMID: 36727489

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WMDS.net: a network control framework for identifying key players in transcriptome programs.

Motivation

Results

Availability and implementation

Supplementary information

Publications

WMDS.net: a network control framework for identifying key players in transcriptome programs.

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