Bioinformatics Vol. 18 no. 1 2002
Pages 51-60
© 2002 Oxford University Press
Linear modes of gene expression determined by independent component analysis
Theoretische Biophysik, Institut für Biologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Invalidenstraße 42, 10115 Berlin, Germanyand Max-Planck-Institut für molekulare Genetik, Ihnestraße 73, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Received on March 22, 2001
; revised on July 20, 2001
; accepted on August 3, 2001
Motivation: The expression of genes is controlled by specific combinations of cellular variables. We applied Independent Component Analysis (ICA) to gene expression data, deriving a linear model based on hidden variables, which we term ‘expression modes’. The expression of each gene is a linear function of the expression modes, where, according to the ICA model, the linear influences of different modes show a minimal statistical dependence, and their distributions deviate sharply from the normal distribution.
Results: Studying cell cycle-related gene expression in yeast, we found that the dominant expression modes could be related to distinct biological functions, such as phases of the cell cycle or the mating response. Analysis of human lymphocytes revealed modes that were related to characteristic differences between cell types. With both data sets, the linear influences of the dominant modes showed distributions with large tails, indicating the existence of specifically up- and downregulated target genes. The expression modes and their influences can be used to visualize the samples and genes in low-dimensional spaces. A projection to expression modes helps to highlight particular biological functions, to reduce noise, and to compress the data in a biologically sensible way.
Availability: The FastICA algorithm (Hyvärinen, IEEE Trans. Neural Netw. , 10, 626–634, 1999) is freely available at http://www.cis.hut.fi/projects/ica/fastica/. Additional matlab scripts and detailed results can be downloaded from http://www.molgen.mpg.de/research/lehrach/projects/genica/
Contact: wolfram.liebermeister{at}rz.hu-berlin.de
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