Reconstructing signaling pathways from RNAi data using probabilistic Boolean threshold networks. Export

@article{citeulike:5489252, abstract = {MOTIVATION: The reconstruction of signaling pathways from gene knockdown data is a novel research field enabled by developments in RNAi screening technology. However, while RNA interference is a powerful technique to identify genes related to a phenotype of interest, their placement in the corresponding pathways remains a challenging problem. Difficulties are aggravated if not all pathway components can be observed after each knockdown, but readouts are only available for a small subset. We are then facing the problem of reconstructing a network from incomplete data. RESULTS: We infer pathway topologies from gene knockdown data using Bayesian networks with probabilistic Boolean threshold functions. To deal with the problem of underdetermined network parameters, we employ a Bayesian learning approach, in which we can integrate arbitrary prior information on the network under consideration. Missing observations are integrated out. We compute the exact likelihood function for smaller networks, and use an approximation to evaluate the likelihood for larger networks. The posterior distribution is evaluated using mode hopping Markov chain Monte Carlo. Distributions over topologies and parameters can then be used to design additional experiments. We evaluate our approach on a small artificial dataset, and present inference results on RNAi data from the Jak/Stat pathway in a human hepatoma cell line.}, author = {Kaderali, Lars and Dazert, Eva and Zeuge, Ulf and Frese, Michael and Bartenschlager, Ralf}, citeulike-article-id = {5489252}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btp375}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/25/17/2229}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19542154}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=19542154}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1093/bioinformatics/btp375}, issn = {1460-2059}, journal = {Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)}, keywords = {boolean, dragan, reconstruction, rnai, signaling}, month = {September}, number = {17}, pages = {2229--2235}, posted-at = {2009-11-02 10:41:21}, priority = {2}, title = {Reconstructing signaling pathways from RNAi data using probabilistic Boolean threshold networks.}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btp375}, volume = {25}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5489252 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5489252 N2 - MOTIVATION: The reconstruction of signaling pathways from gene knockdown data is a novel research field enabled by developments in RNAi screening technology. However, while RNA interference is a powerful technique to identify genes related to a phenotype of interest, their placement in the corresponding pathways remains a challenging problem. Difficulties are aggravated if not all pathway components can be observed after each knockdown, but readouts are only available for a small subset. We are then facing the problem of reconstructing a network from incomplete data. RESULTS: We infer pathway topologies from gene knockdown data using Bayesian networks with probabilistic Boolean threshold functions. To deal with the problem of underdetermined network parameters, we employ a Bayesian learning approach, in which we can integrate arbitrary prior information on the network under consideration. Missing observations are integrated out. We compute the exact likelihood function for smaller networks, and use an approximation to evaluate the likelihood for larger networks. The posterior distribution is evaluated using mode hopping Markov chain Monte Carlo. Distributions over topologies and parameters can then be used to design additional experiments. We evaluate our approach on a small artificial dataset, and present inference results on RNAi data from the Jak/Stat pathway in a human hepatoma cell line. IS - 17 JF - Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) SN - 1460-2059 EP - 2235 TI - Reconstructing signaling pathways from RNAi data using probabilistic Boolean threshold networks. VL - 25 SP - 2229 KW - boolean KW - dragan KW - reconstruction KW - rnai KW - signaling AU - Kaderali, Lars AU - Dazert, Eva AU - Zeuge, Ulf AU - Frese, Michael AU - Bartenschlager, Ralf PY - 2009/09/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btp375 ER -