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Network Legos: Building Blocks of Cellular Wiring Diagrams

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Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB 2007)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNBI,volume 4453))

Abstract

Publicly-available data sets provide detailed and large-scale information on multiple types of molecular interaction networks in a number of model organisms. These multi-modal universal networks capture a static view of cellular state. An important challenge in systems biology is obtaining a dynamic perspective on these networks by integrating them with gene expression measurements taken under multiple conditions.

We present a top-down computational approach to identify building blocks of molecular interaction networks by

  • (i) integrating gene expression measurements for a particular disease state (e.g., leukaemia) or experimental condition (e.g., treatment with growth serum) with molecular interactions to reveal an active network, which is the network of interactions active in the cell in that disease state or condition and

  • (ii) systematically combining active networks computed for different experimental conditions using set-theoretic formulae to reveal network legos, which are modules of coherently interacting genes and gene products in the wiring diagram.

We propose efficient methods to compute active networks, systematically mine candidate legos, assess the statistical significance of these candidates, arrange them in a directed acyclic graph (DAG), and exploit the structure of the DAG to identify true network legos. We describe methods to assess the stability of our computations to changes in the input and to recover active networks by composing network legos.

We analyse two human datasets using our method. A comparison of three leukaemias demonstrates how a biologist can use our system to identify specific differences between these diseases. A larger-scale analysis of 13 distinct stresses illustrates our ability to compute the building blocks of the interaction networks activated in response to these stresses.

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Murali, T.M., Rivera, C.G. (2007). Network Legos: Building Blocks of Cellular Wiring Diagrams. In: Speed, T., Huang, H. (eds) Research in Computational Molecular Biology. RECOMB 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4453. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71681-5_4

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