Title
MARD: a new method to detect differential gene expression in treatment-control time courses.
Abstract
Characterizing the dynamic regulation of gene expression by time course experiments is becoming more and more important. A common problem is to identify differentially expressed genes between the treatment and control time course. It is often difficult to compare expression patterns of a gene between two time courses for the following reasons: (1) the number of sampling time points may be different or hard to be aligned between the treatment and the control time courses; (2) estimation of the function that describes the expression of a gene in a time course is difficult and error-prone due to the limited number of time points. We propose a novel method to identify the differentially expressed genes between two time courses, which avoids direct comparison of gene expression patterns between the two time courses.Instead of attempting to 'align' and compare the two time courses directly, we first convert the treatment and control time courses into neighborhood systems that reflect the underlying relationships between genes. We then identify the differentially expressed genes by comparing the two gene relationship networks. To verify our method, we apply it to two treatment-control time course datasets. The results are consistent with the previous results and also give some new biologically meaningful findings.The algorithm in this paper is coded in C++ and is available from http://leili-lab.cmb.usc.edu/yeastaging/projects/MARD/
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1093/bioinformatics/btl451
Bioinformatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
time course experiment,expression pattern,wefirstconvertthetreatmentandcontroltimecourses into neighborhood systems that reflect the underlying relationships between genes. we then identify the differentially expressed genes bycomparingthetwogenerelationshipnetworks.toverifyourmethod,treatment-control time course datasets,we apply it to two treatment-control time course datasets. the results are consistent with the previous results and also give some new bio- logically meaningful findings. availability:thealgorithminthispaperiscodedinc++andisavailable,gene expression,differential gene expression,time course,sampling time point,gene expression pattern,time point,coursesdirectly,control time course,gene relationship network,new method,regulation of gene expression
Data mining,Gene,Computer science,Sampling time,Gene expression,Regulation of gene expression,Bioinformatics,Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins,Gene expression profiling
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
22
21
1367-4811
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.52
5
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chao Cheng1241.45
Xiaotu Ma2644.96
Xiting Yan3551.66
Fengzhu Sun4963107.14
Lei M Li5625.61