Title
Integrating sequence, expression and interaction data to determine condition-specific miRNA regulation.
Abstract
Motivation: MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNAs that regulate gene expression post-transcriptionally. MiRNAs were shown to play an important role in development and disease, and accurately determining the networks regulated by these miRNAs in a specific condition is of great interest. Early work on miRNA target prediction has focused on using static sequence information. More recently, researchers have combined sequence and expression data to identify such targets in various conditions. Results: We developed the Protein Interaction-based MicroRNA Modules (PIMiM), a regression-based probabilistic method that integrates sequence, expression and interaction data to identify modules of mRNAs controlled by small sets of miRNAs. We formulate an optimization problem and develop a learning framework to determine the module regulation and membership. Applying PIMiM to cancer data, we show that by adding protein interaction data and modeling cooperative regulation of mRNAs by a small number of miRNAs, PIMiM can accurately identify both miRNA and their targets improving on previous methods. We next used PIMiM to jointly analyze a number of different types of cancers and identified both common and cancertype- specific miRNA regulators.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1093/bioinformatics/btt231
BIOINFORMATICS
Keywords
Field
DocType
gene regulatory networks,micrornas,gene expression profiling
Computer science,microRNA,Gene expression,Bioinformatics,Gene regulatory network,Gene expression profiling
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
29
13
1367-4803
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
11
0.63
17
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hai-Son Le1664.59
Ziv Bar-Joseph21207112.00