Title
Discovering Causal Signaling Pathways Through Gene-Expression Patterns
Abstract
High-throughput gene-expression studies result in lists of differentially expressed genes. Most current meta-analyses of these gene lists include searching for significant membership of the translated proteins in various signaling pathways. However, such membership enrichment algorithms do not provide insight into which pathways caused the genes to be differentially expressed in the first place. Here, we present an intuitive approach for discovering upstream signaling pathways responsible for regulating these differentially expressed genes. We identify consistently regulated signature genes specific for signal transduction pathways from a panel of single-pathway perturbation experiments. An algorithm that detects overrepresentation of these signature genes in a gene group of interest is used to infer the signaling pathway responsible for regulation. We expose our novel resource and algorithm through a web server called SPEED: Signaling Pathway Enrichment using Experimental Data sets. SPEED can be freely accessed at http://speed.sys-bio.net/.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1093/nar/gkq424
NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
Keywords
Field
DocType
transcription,cancer,signaling pathway,gene expression regulation,internet,mutation,ccaat enhancer binding proteins,algorithms,phosphorylation,transcription factors,signal transduction,bioinformatics,gene expression profiling
Gene,Biology,Gene expression,Ccaat-enhancer-binding proteins,Regulation of gene expression,Signal transduction,Genetics,Molecular biology,Gene expression profiling,Transcription factor,Mutation
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
38
Web-Server-Issue
0305-1048
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.36
8
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jignesh R. Parikh110.70
Bertram Klinger262.20
Yu Xia3202.61
Jarrod A. Marto491.38
Nils Blüthgen54711.23