Performance assessment of sample-specific network control methods for bulk and single-cell biological data analysis.
Performance assessment of sample-specific network control methods for bulk and single-cell biological data analysis.
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用于批量和单细胞生物数据分析的样本特定网络控制方法的性能评估
DOI:
10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008962
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发表时间:
2021-05
影响因子:
4.3
通讯作者:
Zeng T
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文献类型:
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作者:
Guo WF;Yu X;Shi QQ;Liang J;Zhang SW;Zeng T
In the past few years, a wealth of sample-specific network construction methods and structural network control methods has been proposed to identify sample-specific driver nodes for supporting the Sample-Specific network Control (SSC) analysis of biological networked systems. However, there is no comprehensive evaluation for these state-of-the-art methods. Here, we conducted a performance assessment for 16 SSC analysis workflows by using the combination of 4 sample-specific network reconstruction methods and 4 representative structural control methods. This study includes simulation evaluation of representative biological networks, personalized driver genes prioritization on multiple cancer bulk expression datasets with matched patient samples from TCGA, and cell marker genes and key time point identification related to cell differentiation on single-cell RNA-seq datasets. By widely comparing analysis of existing SSC analysis workflows, we provided the following recommendations and banchmarking workflows. (i) The performance of a network control method is strongly dependent on the up-stream sample-specific network method, and Cell-Specific Network construction (CSN) method and Single-Sample Network (SSN) method are the preferred sample-specific network construction methods. (ii) After constructing the sample-specific networks, the undirected network-based control methods are more effective than the directed network-based control methods. In addition, these data and evaluation pipeline are freely available on https://github.com/WilfongGuo/Benchmark_control. Recently structural network control methods which exploit structural controllability of complex networks have become a powerful analysis tool for identifying driver nodes (e.g., driver genes or drug targets) in biological networked systems. In fact, the key point to apply structural network control on biological networked systems is how to characterize the state transition network (or interaction network) of these biological systems. The state transition network is a graph in which nodes denote the system variables and edges denote the significant interactions to trigger the state transition of system from one attractor (e.g., healthy state of individual patients) to another attractor (e.g., disease state of individual patients). The state transition network characterizes the state transition of networked system between any two attractors. Coincidentally, recently single sample network construction methods have been proposed to construct sample specific interaction network for characterizing the state transition of sample-specific biological systems. Therefore it is time to conduct a study to assess the performance of these state-of-the-art methods on the real-world biological systems, including sample-specific network construction methods and structural network control methods. Here we comprehensively provided a performance evaluation of 16 analysis workflows based on the combination of four sample-specific network reconstruction methods and four representative structural network control methods on a variety of real-world biological datasets. By this study, we have shed light on the relative behavior and performance of different analysis frameworks for evaluating and recommending these methods in particular biological application scenarios. In addition, we would like to point a few challenges for current methods and suggest several development directions of new SSC analysis workflows when more complex practice conditions of control principles are faced.
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