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ArticlePLoS computational biology2016

Network-Based Interpretation of Diverse High-Throughput Datasets through the Omics Integrator Software Package.

Nurcan Tuncbag, Sara J C Gosline, Amanda Kedaigle, Anthony R Soltis, Anthony Gitter, Ernest Fraenkel

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Article in PLoS computational biology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 98 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

98 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Nurcan TuncbagDepartment of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America.
Sara J C GoslineDepartment of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America.
Amanda KedaigleDepartment of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6156-5046
Anthony R SoltisDepartment of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3394-1275
Anthony GitterDepartment of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5324-9833
Ernest FraenkelDepartment of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9249-8181

Funding

Tumor Cell Networks CenterU54CA112967 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI LAUFFENBURGER, DOUGLAS A · 2004 to 2015
$26.2M
Neuron and Glial Cellular Signatures from Normal and Diseased iPS Cells-SupplementU54NS091046 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI FINKBEINER, STEVEN M, FRAENKEL, ERNEST · 2014 to 2020
$11.7M
Graduate Training in Computational and Systems BiologyT32GM087237 · NIGMS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI BURGE, CHRISTOPHER B · 2009 to 2023
$4.6M
Embryonal Brain Tumor NetworksU01CA184898 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI FRAENKEL, ERNEST, MESIROV, JILL P. · 2014 to 2019
$3.6M
A Systems Biology Approach to Reveal Huntington's Disease MechanismsR01GM089903 · NIGMS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI FRAENKEL, ERNEST · 2010 to 2014
$2.4M
NCI NIH HHS U01 CA184898NCI NIH HHS U01CA184898NCI NIH HHS U54 CA112967NCI NIH HHS U54CA112967NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM089903NIGMS NIH HHS R01GM089903NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM087237NINDS NIH HHS U54 NS091046NINDS NIH HHS U54NS091046
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

High-throughput, 'omic' methods provide sensitive measures of biological responses to perturbations. However, inherent biases in high-throughput assays make it difficult to interpret experiments in which more than one type of data is collected. In this work, we introduce Omics Integrator, a software package that takes a variety of 'omic' data as input and identifies putative underlying molecular pathways. The approach applies advanced network optimization algorithms to a network of thousands of molecular interactions to find high-confidence, interpretable subnetworks that best explain the data. These subnetworks connect changes observed in gene expression, protein abundance or other global assays to proteins that may not have been measured in the screens due to inherent bias or noise in measurement. This approach reveals unannotated molecular pathways that would not be detectable by searching pathway databases. Omics Integrator also provides an elegant framework to incorporate not only positive data, but also negative evidence. Incorporating negative evidence allows Omics Integrator to avoid unexpressed genes and avoid being biased toward highly-studied hub proteins, except when they are strongly implicated by the data. The software is comprised of two individual tools, Garnet and Forest, that can be run together or independently to allow a user to perform advanced integration of multiple types of high-throughput data as well as create condition-specific subnetworks of protein interactions that best connect the observed changes in various datasets. It is available at http://fraenkel.mit.edu/omicsintegrator and on GitHub at https://github.com/fraenkel-lab/OmicsIntegrator.

Indexed as

Gene Regulatory NetworksSoftwareAlgorithmsComputational BiologyDatabases, GeneticEpigenesis, GeneticGene Expression ProfilingHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingHumansLung NeoplasmsProtein Interaction MapsTranscription FactorsTranscription Factors

Identifiers

PMID27096930
PMCPMC4838263

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