NetceRNA: An algorithm for construction of phenotype-specific regulation networks via competing endogenous RNAs

Mario Flores, Yufei Huang, Yidong Chen

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    Abstract

    By using the competing endogenous RNA (ceRNA) concept, we implemented a web-based application TraceRNA. TraceRNA allows us to interactively construct a regulation network for a specific phenotype by using a disease-specific transcriptome data. In this work, we further extend the TraceRNA with a novel algorithm implementation where we examined the microRNA expression derived from same disease type. The proposed algorithm, NetceRNA, finds an optimized network representation under a certain phenotype context by iteratively perturbing the network and measuring the network configuration change with respect to the original ceRNA network. The resulting algorithm outputs an improved network together with a ranked list of genes and miRNAs which are characteristic of the specific phenotype. To illustrate the utility of NetceRNA, gene expression and microRNA expression data of breast cancer study from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) were used.

    Original languageEnglish (US)
    Title of host publication2013 IEEE International Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics, GENSIPS 2013 - Proceedings
    Pages24-27
    Number of pages4
    DOIs
    StatePublished - 2013
    Event2013 IEEE International Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics, GENSIPS 2013 - Houston, TX, United States
    Duration: Nov 17 2013Nov 19 2013

    Publication series

    NameProceedings - IEEE International Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics
    ISSN (Print)2150-3001
    ISSN (Electronic)2150-301X

    Other

    Other2013 IEEE International Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics, GENSIPS 2013
    Country/TerritoryUnited States
    CityHouston, TX
    Period11/17/1311/19/13

    Keywords

    • ceRNAs
    • gene regulatory network
    • microRNAs

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous)
    • Computational Theory and Mathematics
    • Signal Processing
    • Biomedical Engineering

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