Bayesian hierarchical model for transcriptional module discovery by jointly modeling gene expression and ChIP-chip data
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Transcriptional modules (TM) consist of groups of co-regulated genes and transcription factors (TF) regulating their expression. Two high-throughput (HT) experimental technologies, gene expression microarrays and Chromatin Immuno-Pre...
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| author | Sivaganesan Siva Jessen Walter J Liu Xiangdong Aronow Bruce J Medvedovic Mario |
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| description | <p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Transcriptional modules (TM) consist of groups of co-regulated genes and transcription factors (TF) regulating their expression. Two high-throughput (HT) experimental technologies, gene expression microarrays and Chromatin Immuno-Precipitation on Chip (ChIP-chip), are capable of producing data informative about expression regulatory mechanism on a genome scale. The optimal approach to joint modeling of data generated by these two complementary biological assays, with the goal of identifying and characterizing TMs, is an important open problem in computational biomedicine.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>We developed and validated a novel probabilistic model and related computational procedure for identifying TMs by jointly modeling gene expression and ChIP-chip binding data. We demonstrate an improved functional coherence of the TMs produced by the new method when compared to either analyzing expression or ChIP-chip data separately or to alternative approaches for joint analysis. We also demonstrate the ability of the new algorithm to identify novel regulatory relationships not revealed by ChIP-chip data alone. The new computational procedure can be used in more or less the same way as one would use simple hierarchical clustering without performing any special transformation of data prior to the analysis. The R and C-source code for implementing our algorithm is incorporated within the R package <it>gimmR </it>which is freely available at http://eh3.uc.edu/gimm.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>Our results indicate that, whenever available, ChIP-chip and expression data should be analyzed within the unified probabilistic modeling framework, which will likely result in improved clusters of co-regulated genes and improved ability to detect meaningful regulatory relationships. Given the good statistical properties and the ease of use, the new computational procedure offers a worthy new tool for reconstructing transcriptional regulatory networks.</p> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4bdb472a204e4ead910d72ef6ff4ce7f2022-12-21T18:50:15ZengBMCBMC Bioinformatics1471-21052007-08-018128310.1186/1471-2105-8-283Bayesian hierarchical model for transcriptional module discovery by jointly modeling gene expression and ChIP-chip dataSivaganesan SivaJessen Walter JLiu XiangdongAronow Bruce JMedvedovic Mario<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Transcriptional modules (TM) consist of groups of co-regulated genes and transcription factors (TF) regulating their expression. Two high-throughput (HT) experimental technologies, gene expression microarrays and Chromatin Immuno-Precipitation on Chip (ChIP-chip), are capable of producing data informative about expression regulatory mechanism on a genome scale. The optimal approach to joint modeling of data generated by these two complementary biological assays, with the goal of identifying and characterizing TMs, is an important open problem in computational biomedicine.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>We developed and validated a novel probabilistic model and related computational procedure for identifying TMs by jointly modeling gene expression and ChIP-chip binding data. We demonstrate an improved functional coherence of the TMs produced by the new method when compared to either analyzing expression or ChIP-chip data separately or to alternative approaches for joint analysis. We also demonstrate the ability of the new algorithm to identify novel regulatory relationships not revealed by ChIP-chip data alone. The new computational procedure can be used in more or less the same way as one would use simple hierarchical clustering without performing any special transformation of data prior to the analysis. The R and C-source code for implementing our algorithm is incorporated within the R package <it>gimmR </it>which is freely available at http://eh3.uc.edu/gimm.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>Our results indicate that, whenever available, ChIP-chip and expression data should be analyzed within the unified probabilistic modeling framework, which will likely result in improved clusters of co-regulated genes and improved ability to detect meaningful regulatory relationships. Given the good statistical properties and the ease of use, the new computational procedure offers a worthy new tool for reconstructing transcriptional regulatory networks.</p>http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/8/283 |
| spellingShingle | Sivaganesan Siva Jessen Walter J Liu Xiangdong Aronow Bruce J Medvedovic Mario Bayesian hierarchical model for transcriptional module discovery by jointly modeling gene expression and ChIP-chip data BMC Bioinformatics |
| title | Bayesian hierarchical model for transcriptional module discovery by jointly modeling gene expression and ChIP-chip data |
| title_full | Bayesian hierarchical model for transcriptional module discovery by jointly modeling gene expression and ChIP-chip data |
| title_fullStr | Bayesian hierarchical model for transcriptional module discovery by jointly modeling gene expression and ChIP-chip data |
| title_full_unstemmed | Bayesian hierarchical model for transcriptional module discovery by jointly modeling gene expression and ChIP-chip data |
| title_short | Bayesian hierarchical model for transcriptional module discovery by jointly modeling gene expression and ChIP-chip data |
| title_sort | bayesian hierarchical model for transcriptional module discovery by jointly modeling gene expression and chip chip data |
| url | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/8/283 |
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