Title
DREM 2.0: Improved reconstruction of dynamic regulatory networks from time-series expression data.
Abstract
Modeling dynamic regulatory networks is a major challenge since much of the protein-DNA interaction data available is static. The Dynamic Regulatory Events Miner (DREM) uses a Hidden Markov Model-based approach to integrate this static interaction data with time series gene expression leading to models that can determine when transcription factors (TFs) activate genes and what genes they regulate. DREM has been used successfully in diverse areas of biological research. However, several issues were not addressed by the original version.DREM 2.0 is a comprehensive software for reconstructing dynamic regulatory networks that supports interactive graphical or batch mode. With version 2.0 a set of new features that are unique in comparison with other softwares are introduced. First, we provide static interaction data for additional species. Second, DREM 2.0 now accepts continuous binding values and we added a new method to utilize TF expression levels when searching for dynamic models. Third, we added support for discriminative motif discovery, which is particularly powerful for species with limited experimental interaction data. Finally, we improved the visualization to support the new features. Combined, these changes improve the ability of DREM 2.0 to accurately recover dynamic regulatory networks and make it much easier to use it for analyzing such networks in several species with varying degrees of interaction information.DREM 2.0 provides a unique framework for constructing and visualizing dynamic regulatory networks. DREM 2.0 can be downloaded from: http://www.sb.cs.cmu.edu/drem.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1186/1752-0509-6-104
BMC systems biology
Keywords
Field
DocType
asbestos,transcription factor,gene expression profiling,protein dna interaction,bioinformatics,algorithms,time series,hidden markov model,gene expression,systems biology
Data mining,Computer science,Visualization,Systems biology,Software,Batch processing,Interaction information,Bioinformatics,Gene regulatory network,Hidden Markov model,Discriminative model
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
6
1
1752-0509
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
18
1.31
23
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Marcel H Schulz124024.03
William E. Devanny2406.59
Anthony Gitter3476.07
Shan Zhong4342.28
Jason Ernst5181.31
Ziv Bar-Joseph61207112.00