Bioinformatics Advance Access originally published online on December 6, 2005
Bioinformatics 2006 22(4):477-484; doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/bti816
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Least absolute regression network analysis of the murine osteoblast differentiation network

1Department of Mediametics, Delft University of Technology 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands
2Department of Applied Biology, University of Nijmegen Nijmegen, The Netherlands
3N.V.Organon, Target Discovery Unit Oss, The Netherlands
*To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Motivation: We propose a reverse engineering scheme to discover genetic regulation from genome-wide transcription data that monitors the dynamic transcriptional response after a change in cellular environment. The interaction network is estimated by solving a linear model using simultaneous shrinking of the least absolute weights and the prediction error.
Results: The proposed scheme has been applied to the murine C2C12 cell-line stimulated to undergo osteoblast differentiation. Results show that our method discovers genetic interactions that display significant enrichment of co-citation in literature. More detailed study showed that the inferred network exhibits properties and hypotheses that are consistent with current biological knowledge.
Availability: Software is freely available for academic use as a Matlab package called GENLAB: http://genlab.tudelft.nl/genlab.html
Contact: E.P.vanSomeren{at}tudelft.nl
Supplementary information: Additional data, results and figures can be found at http://genlab.tudelft.nl/larna.html
Received on November 1, 2005; revised on November 16, 2005; accepted on December 1, 2005
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