Title
Omics community detection using multi-resolution clustering
Abstract
Motivation: The discovery of biologically interpretable and clinically actionable communities in heterogeneous omics data is a necessary first step toward deriving mechanistic insights into complex biological phenomena. Here, we present a novel clustering approach, omeClust, for community detection in omics profiles by simultaneously incorporating similarities among measurements and the overall complex structure of the data. Results: We show that omeClust outperforms published methods in inferring the true community structure as measured by both sensitivity and misclassification rate on simulated datasets. We further validated omeClust in diverse, multiple omics datasets, revealing new communities and functionally related groups in microbial strains, cell line gene expression patterns and fetal genomic variation. We also derived enrichment scores attributable to putatively meaningful biological factors in these datasets that can serve as hypothesis generators facilitating new sets of testable hypotheses.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1093/bioinformatics/btab317
BIOINFORMATICS
DocType
Volume
Issue
Journal
37
20
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1367-4803
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ali Rahnavard100.34
Suvo Chatterjee200.34
Bahar Sayoldin300.34
Keith Crandall49714.34
Fasil Tekola-Ayele500.34
Himel Mallick632.21