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ArticleFrontiers in genetics2014

Untangling statistical and biological models to understand network inference: the need for a genomics network ontology.

Frank Emmert-Streib, Matthias Dehmer, Benjamin Haibe-Kains

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Article in Frontiers in genetics, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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Frank Emmert-StreibComputational Biology and Machine Learning Laboratory, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences, Center for Cancer Research and Cell Biology, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen's University Belfast Belfast, UK.
Matthias DehmerInstitute for Bioinformatics and Translational Research, UMIT Hall in Tyrol, Austria.
Benjamin Haibe-KainsBioinformatics and Computational Genomics Laboratory, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network Toronto, ON, Canada.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this paper, we shed light on approaches that are currently used to infer networks from gene expression data with respect to their biological meaning. As we will show, the biological interpretation of these networks depends on the chosen theoretical perspective. For this reason, we distinguish a statistical perspective from a mathematical modeling perspective and elaborate their differences and implications. Our results indicate the imperative need for a genomic network ontology in order to avoid increasing confusion about the biological interpretation of inferred networks, which can be even enhanced by approaches that integrate multiple data sets, respectively, data types.

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computational genomicsepistemologygene regulatory networksgenomics network ontologymathematical modelingstatistical inferencesystems biology

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PMID25221572
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