Title
Sensitivity analysis of biological Boolean networks using information fusion based on nonadditive set functions.
Abstract
An algebraic method for information fusion based on nonadditive set functions is used to assess the joint contribution of Boolean network attributes to the sensitivity of the network to individual node mutations. The node attributes or characteristics under consideration are: in-degree, out-degree, minimum and average path lengths, bias, average sensitivity of Boolean functions, and canalizing degrees. The impact of node mutations is assessed using as target measure the average Hamming distance between a non-mutated/wild-type network and a mutated network.We find that for a biochemical signal transduction network consisting of several main signaling pathways whose nodes represent signaling molecules (mainly proteins), the algebraic method provides a robust classification of attribute contributions. This method indicates that for the biochemical network, the most significant impact is generated mainly by the combined effects of two attributes: out-degree, and average sensitivity of nodes.The results support the idea that both topological and dynamical properties of the nodes need to be under consideration. The algebraic method is robust against the choice of initial conditions and partition of data sets in training and testing sets for estimation of the nonadditive set functions of the information fusion procedure.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1186/s12918-014-0092-4
BMC systems biology
Keywords
Field
DocType
algorithms,bioinformatics,systems biology
Boolean network,Set function,Boolean function,Protein Interaction Map,Biology,Algebraic method,Theoretical computer science,Hamming distance,Bioinformatics,Choquet integral,Information fusion
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
8
1
1752-0509
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.34
11
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Naomi Kochi161.44
Tomáš Helikar2747.13
Laura Allen320.34
Jim A Rogers4302.25
Zhenyuan Wang568490.22
Mihaela Teodora Matache6102.82