Bayesian inference for genomic data integration reduces misclassification rate in predicting protein-protein interactions.

Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) are essential to most fundamental cellular processes. There has been increasing interest in reconstructing PPIs networks. However, several critical difficulties exist in obtaining reliable predictions. Noticeably, false positive rates can be as high as >80%. Er...

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Main Authors: Chuanhua Xing, David B Dunson
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Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-07-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3145649?pdf=render
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David B Dunson
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description Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) are essential to most fundamental cellular processes. There has been increasing interest in reconstructing PPIs networks. However, several critical difficulties exist in obtaining reliable predictions. Noticeably, false positive rates can be as high as >80%. Error correction from each generating source can be both time-consuming and inefficient due to the difficulty of covering the errors from multiple levels of data processing procedures within a single test. We propose a novel Bayesian integration method, deemed nonparametric Bayes ensemble learning (NBEL), to lower the misclassification rate (both false positives and negatives) through automatically up-weighting data sources that are most informative, while down-weighting less informative and biased sources. Extensive studies indicate that NBEL is significantly more robust than the classic naïve Bayes to unreliable, error-prone and contaminated data. On a large human data set our NBEL approach predicts many more PPIs than naïve Bayes. This suggests that previous studies may have large numbers of not only false positives but also false negatives. The validation on two human PPIs datasets having high quality supports our observations. Our experiments demonstrate that it is feasible to predict high-throughput PPIs computationally with substantially reduced false positives and false negatives. The ability of predicting large numbers of PPIs both reliably and automatically may inspire people to use computational approaches to correct data errors in general, and may speed up PPIs prediction with high quality. Such a reliable prediction may provide a solid platform to other studies such as protein functions prediction and roles of PPIs in disease susceptibility.
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spelling doaj.art-b417538f58be4b179943ff55865904342022-12-21T18:25:17ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS Computational Biology1553-734X1553-73582011-07-0177e100211010.1371/journal.pcbi.1002110Bayesian inference for genomic data integration reduces misclassification rate in predicting protein-protein interactions.Chuanhua XingDavid B DunsonProtein-protein interactions (PPIs) are essential to most fundamental cellular processes. There has been increasing interest in reconstructing PPIs networks. However, several critical difficulties exist in obtaining reliable predictions. Noticeably, false positive rates can be as high as >80%. Error correction from each generating source can be both time-consuming and inefficient due to the difficulty of covering the errors from multiple levels of data processing procedures within a single test. We propose a novel Bayesian integration method, deemed nonparametric Bayes ensemble learning (NBEL), to lower the misclassification rate (both false positives and negatives) through automatically up-weighting data sources that are most informative, while down-weighting less informative and biased sources. Extensive studies indicate that NBEL is significantly more robust than the classic naïve Bayes to unreliable, error-prone and contaminated data. On a large human data set our NBEL approach predicts many more PPIs than naïve Bayes. This suggests that previous studies may have large numbers of not only false positives but also false negatives. The validation on two human PPIs datasets having high quality supports our observations. Our experiments demonstrate that it is feasible to predict high-throughput PPIs computationally with substantially reduced false positives and false negatives. The ability of predicting large numbers of PPIs both reliably and automatically may inspire people to use computational approaches to correct data errors in general, and may speed up PPIs prediction with high quality. Such a reliable prediction may provide a solid platform to other studies such as protein functions prediction and roles of PPIs in disease susceptibility.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3145649?pdf=render
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Bayesian inference for genomic data integration reduces misclassification rate in predicting protein-protein interactions.
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title Bayesian inference for genomic data integration reduces misclassification rate in predicting protein-protein interactions.
title_full Bayesian inference for genomic data integration reduces misclassification rate in predicting protein-protein interactions.
title_fullStr Bayesian inference for genomic data integration reduces misclassification rate in predicting protein-protein interactions.
title_full_unstemmed Bayesian inference for genomic data integration reduces misclassification rate in predicting protein-protein interactions.
title_short Bayesian inference for genomic data integration reduces misclassification rate in predicting protein-protein interactions.
title_sort bayesian inference for genomic data integration reduces misclassification rate in predicting protein protein interactions
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