A generalized framework for controlling FDR in gene regulatory network inference

Bioinformatics
Daniel C MorganErik L L Sonnhammer

Abstract

Inference of gene regulatory networks (GRNs) from perturbation data can give detailed mechanistic insights of a biological system. Many inference methods exist, but the resulting GRN is generally sensitive to the choice of method-specific parameters. Even though the inferred GRN is optimal given the parameters, many links may be wrong or missing if the data is not informative. To make GRN inference reliable, a method is needed to estimate the support of each predicted link as the method parameters are varied. To achieve this we have developed a method called nested bootstrapping, which applies a bootstrapping protocol to GRN inference, and by repeated bootstrap runs assesses the stability of the estimated support values. To translate bootstrap support values to false discovery rates we run the same pipeline with shuffled data as input. This provides a general method to control the false discovery rate of GRN inference that can be applied to any setting of inference parameters, noise level, or data properties. We evaluated nested bootstrapping on a simulated dataset spanning a range of such properties, using the LASSO, Least Squares, RNI, GENIE3 and CLR inference methods. An improved inference accuracy was observed in almost all...Continue Reading

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Aug 28, 2020·Scientific Reports·Daniel MorganErik L L Sonnhammer
Nov 11, 2020·NPJ Systems Biology and Applications·Deniz SeçilmişErik L L Sonnhammer
Oct 6, 2020·Bioinformatics·Frédéric BertrandMyriam Maumy-Bertrand

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