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ArticleThe Plant cell2014

Machine learning-based differential network analysis: a study of stress-responsive transcriptomes in Arabidopsis.

Chuang Ma, Mingming Xin, Kenneth A Feldmann, Xiangfeng Wang

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Article in The Plant cell, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 76 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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4 authors.

Chuang MaSchool of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721-0036.
Mingming Xin
Kenneth A Feldmann
Xiangfeng Wang

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Abstract

Machine learning (ML) is an intelligent data mining technique that builds a prediction model based on the learning of prior knowledge to recognize patterns in large-scale data sets. We present an ML-based methodology for transcriptome analysis via comparison of gene coexpression networks, implemented as an R package called machine learning-based differential network analysis (mlDNA) and apply this method to reanalyze a set of abiotic stress expression data in Arabidopsis thaliana. The mlDNA first used a ML-based filtering process to remove nonexpressed, constitutively expressed, or non-stress-responsive "noninformative" genes prior to network construction, through learning the patterns of 32 expression characteristics of known stress-related genes. The retained "informative" genes were subsequently analyzed by ML-based network comparison to predict candidate stress-related genes showing expression and network differences between control and stress networks, based on 33 network topological characteristics. Comparative evaluation of the network-centric and gene-centric analytic methods showed that mlDNA substantially outperformed traditional statistical testing-based differential expression analysis at identifying stress-related genes, with markedly improved prediction accuracy. To experimentally validate the mlDNA predictions, we selected 89 candidates out of the 1784 predicted salt stress-related genes with available SALK T-DNA mutagenesis lines for phenotypic screening and identified two previously unreported genes, mutants of which showed salt-sensitive phenotypes.

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Artificial IntelligenceGene Expression ProfilingGene Regulatory NetworksArabidopsisDatabases, GeneticGene Expression Regulation, PlantGenes, PlantGenetic Association StudiesPhenotypeSignal TransductionSodium ChlorideSoftwareStress, PhysiologicalTranscriptomeSodium Chloride

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PMID24520154
PMCPMC3967023

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