Title
State Space Model with hidden variables for reconstruction of gene regulatory networks.
Abstract
State Space Model (SSM) is a relatively new approach to inferring gene regulatory networks. It requires less computational time than Dynamic Bayesian Networks (DBN). There are two types of variables in the linear SSM, observed variables and hidden variables. SSM uses an iterative method, namely Expectation-Maximization, to infer regulatory relationships from microarray datasets. The hidden variables cannot be directly observed from experiments. How to determine the number of hidden variables has a significant impact on the accuracy of network inference. In this study, we used SSM to infer Gene regulatory networks (GRNs) from synthetic time series datasets, investigated Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC) and Principle Component Analysis (PCA) approaches to determining the number of hidden variables in SSM, and evaluated the performance of SSM in comparison with DBN.True GRNs and synthetic gene expression datasets were generated using GeneNetWeaver. Both DBN and linear SSM were used to infer GRNs from the synthetic datasets. The inferred networks were compared with the true networks.Our results show that inference precision varied with the number of hidden variables. For some regulatory networks, the inference precision of DBN was higher but SSM performed better in other cases. Although the overall performance of the two approaches is compatible, SSM is much faster and capable of inferring much larger networks than DBN.This study provides useful information in handling the hidden variables and improving the inference precision.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1186/1752-0509-5-S3-S3
BMC systems biology
Keywords
Field
DocType
roc curve,systems biology,algorithms,principal component analysis,gene regulatory networks,computational biology,bioinformatics,bayes theorem,escherichia coli
Data mining,Bayesian information criterion,Computer science,Inference,State-space representation,Bioinformatics,Hidden variable theory,Gene regulatory network,Principal component analysis,Bayes' theorem,Dynamic Bayesian network
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
5 Suppl 3
S-3
1752-0509
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
10
0.56
7
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xi Wu1100.56
Peng Li2753.20
Nan Wang3564.79
Ping Gong4443.45
Edward J. Perkins522520.46
Youping Deng663138.43
Chaoyang Zhang723022.23