Title
Building Transcriptional Association Networks in Cytoscape with RegNetC
Date Issued
01 July 2015
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Nepomuceno-Chamorro I.
Marquez-Chamorro A.
Pablo de Olavide University
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
The Regression Network plugin for Cytoscape (RegNetC) implements the RegNet algorithm for the inference of transcriptional association network from gene expression profiles. This algorithm is a model tree-based method to detect the relationship between each gene and the remaining genes simultaneously instead of analyzing individually each pair of genes as correlation-based methods do. Model trees are a very useful technique to estimate the gene expression value by regression models and favours localized similarities over more global similarity, which is one of the major drawbacks of correlation-based methods. Here, we present an integrated software suite, named RegNetC, as a Cytoscape plugin that can operate on its own as well. RegNetC facilitates, according to user-defined parameters, the resulted transcriptional gene association network in.sif format for visualization, analysis and interoperates with other Cytoscape plugins, which can be exported for publication figures. In addition to the network, the RegNetC plugin also provides the quantitative relationships between genes expression values of those genes involved in the inferred network, i.e., those defined by the regression models.
Start page
823
End page
824
Volume
12
Issue
4
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Bioinformática Ciencias de la computación
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84939139723
PubMed ID
Source
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
ISSN of the container
15455963
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