Gene Prioritization by Compressive Data Fusion and Chaining.
Gene Prioritization by Compressive Data Fusion and Chaining.
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通过压缩数据融合和链接的基因优先次序。
DOI:
10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004552
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发表时间:
2015-10
影响因子:
4.3
通讯作者:
Zupan B
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文献类型:
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作者:
Žitnik M;Nam EA;Dinh C;Kuspa A;Shaulsky G;Zupan B
Data integration procedures combine heterogeneous data sets into predictive models, but they are limited to data explicitly related to the target object type, such as genes. Collage is a new data fusion approach to gene prioritization. It considers data sets of various association levels with the prediction task, utilizes collective matrix factorization to compress the data, and chaining to relate different object types contained in a data compendium. Collage prioritizes genes based on their similarity to several seed genes. We tested Collage by prioritizing bacterial response genes in Dictyostelium as a novel model system for prokaryote-eukaryote interactions. Using 4 seed genes and 14 data sets, only one of which was directly related to the bacterial response, Collage proposed 8 candidate genes that were readily validated as necessary for the response of Dictyostelium to Gram-negative bacteria. These findings establish Collage as a method for inferring biological knowledge from the integration of heterogeneous and coarsely related data sets. In everyday life, we make decisions by considering all the available information, and often find that inclusion of even seemingly circumstantial evidence provides an advantage. Our new computational method Collage prioritizes genes from a large collection of heterogeneous data. In a case study on social amoeba Dictyostelium, we started from four bacterial response genes and 14 different data sets ranging from gene expression to pathway and literature information. Collage proposed eight candidate genes that were tested in the wet laboratory. Mutations in all eight candidates reduced the ability of the amoebae to grow on Gram-negative bacteria. Furthermore, five out of the eight candidate genes were required for growth on Gram-negative bacteria but had no discernible effect on growth on Gram-positive bacteria. This is a remarkably accurate result since only about a hundred of the 12,000 Dictyostelium genes are estimated to be responsible for bacterial response.