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Inference of predictive gene interaction networks

Benjamin Haibe-Kains

DFCI/HSPH

December 15, 2011

at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard School of Public Healthat the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard School of Public Health

The Computational Biology and Functional Genomics Laboratory

Benjamin Haibe-Kains (DFCI/HSPH) R/Bioconductor Course December 15, 2011 1 / 12

Background

Phenotypes result from biological networks, not individual genes

New biotechnologies allow us to analyze multiple genes in parallel:I next generation sequencingI gene expression profilingI Chip-seqI . . .

Understand the complex interactions between genes and the behaviorof a network is fundamental

I to bring new biological insightsI to make ”useful” predictions


Relevance

Aim: Infer reliable predictive gene interaction networks from geneexpression data

Beyond biological understanding, such networks would be efficient toolsfor:

predicting the response of an organism (cancer patient) toperturbations (targeted therapies)

identifying the key genes to target for significantly decreasing apathway activity

optimizing combination of drugs and therapy regiments


Gene Interaction Network

Genes are represented as”nodes”

Interactions are representedby ”edges”

Edges can be directed toshow ”causal” interactions

Edges are not necessarilydirect interactions

gene a

gene b

gene c

gene d

gene e

gene f

gene g

gene h


Gene Interaction Network and Perturbation

gene a

gene b

gene c

gene d

gene e

gene f

gene g

gene h

Highexpression

Lowexpression

gene a

gene b

gene c

gene d

gene e

gene e

gene g

gene h

Perturbation


Challenges in network inference. . . and how we address them

1 Problem complexity : seed the search for the ”best” network by usingprior biological knowledge about gene interactions

ß Predictive Networks web application

2 Curse of dimensionality : development of a local regression-basednetwork inference to enable analysis of hundreds of genes in parallel

3 Lack of validation: development of performance criteria to assess thequality of network models

4 Lack of software: implementation of network inference methods andrelated tools in R

ß predictionet package


























Predictive Networks web application

https://compbio.dfci.harvard.edu/predictivenetworks/


https://compbio.dfci.harvard.edu/predictivenetworks/

Regression-based network inference

Gene expression data

Undirected graph

Directedgraph

Directedgraph

Networktopology

Predictive models

Priors

MRMR

causalityInference

(linear)regression

Predictive Networksweb application


Performance criteria for network inference

We implement a cross-validation framework to assess:

edge-specific stability: what are the interactions inferred in most ofthe cross-validation folds?

gene-specific prediction score: what are the genes whose expressioncan be well predicted by their parent/source genes?


Predictionet R package

https://github.com/bhaibeka/predictionet


https://github.com/bhaibeka/predictionet

Acknowledgements

Computational Biology andFunctional Genomics Laboratory

Machine Learning Group Entagen

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, USA Universite Libre deBruxelles, Belgium

Entagen, USA

Renee RubioKathleen FlemingNiall PrendergastRaktim SinhaDaniel SchlauchAlejandro QuirozMegha PadiStefan BentinkJohn Quackenbush

Catharina OlsenGianluca Bontempi

Christopher BoutonErik BakkeJames Hardwick

Ontario Cancer Institute

Universty of Toronto,Canada

Amira Djebbari


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