Title
Classification of microarray data using gene networks.
Abstract
Microarrays have become extremely useful for analysing genetic phenomena, but establishing a relation between microarray analysis results (typically a list of genes) and their biological significance is often difficult. Currently, the standard approach is to map a posteriori the results onto gene networks in order to elucidate the functions perturbed at the level of pathways. However, integrating a priori knowledge of the gene networks could help in the statistical analysis of gene expression data and in their biological interpretation.We propose a method to integrate a priori the knowledge of a gene network in the analysis of gene expression data. The approach is based on the spectral decomposition of gene expression profiles with respect to the eigenfunctions of the graph, resulting in an attenuation of the high-frequency components of the expression profiles with respect to the topology of the graph. We show how to derive unsupervised and supervised classification algorithms of expression profiles, resulting in classifiers with biological relevance. We illustrate the method with the analysis of a set of expression profiles from irradiated and non-irradiated yeast strains.Including a priori knowledge of a gene network for the analysis of gene expression data leads to good classification performance and improved interpretability of the results.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1186/1471-2105-8-35
BMC Bioinformatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
microarrays,microarray data,microarray analysis,gene network,genetics,spectral decomposition,a priori knowledge,bioinformatics,high frequency,algorithms,statistical analysis
Genetic Phenomena,Data mining,Biology,A priori and a posteriori,Metabolic network,Microarray analysis techniques,Bioinformatics,Gene regulatory network,Microarray databases,DNA microarray,Gene expression profiling
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
8
1
1471-2105
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
93
5.61
14
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Franck Rapaport11217.41
Andrei Zinovyev228227.30
Marie Dutreix31256.64
Emmanuel Barillot4950165.00
Jean-philippe Vert52754158.52