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Inferring Transcriptional Interactions by the Optimal Integration of ChIP-chip and Knock-out Data

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Publication Date: 21 Oct 2009

Type: Original Research

Journal: Bioinformatics and Biology Insights

Citation: Bioinformatics and Biology Insights 2009:3 129-140

Abstract

How to combine heterogeneous data sources for reliable prediction of transcriptional regulation is a challenge. Here we present an easy but powerful method to integrate Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP)-chip and knock-out data. Since these two types of data provide complementary (physical and functional) information about transcription, the method combining them is expected to achieve high detection rates and very low false positive rates. We try to seek the optimal integration of these two data using hyper-geometric distribution. We evaluate our method on yeast data and compare our predictions with YEASTRACT, high-quality ChIP-chip data, and literature. The results show that even using low-quality ChIP-chip data, our method uncovers more relations than those inferred before from high-quality data. Furthermore our method achieves a low false positive rate. We find experimental and computational evidence in literature for most transcription factor (TF)-gene relations uncovered by our method.


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