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ArticleBMC bioinformatics2017

PRODIGEN: visualizing the probability landscape of stochastic gene regulatory networks in state and time space.

Chihua Ma, Timothy Luciani, Anna Terebus, Jie Liang, G Elisabeta Marai

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Article in BMC bioinformatics, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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Chihua MaElectronic Visualization Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, 851 S. Morgan St (M/C 152), Room 1120 SEO, Chicago, 60607, IL, US. cma6@uic.edu.
Timothy LucianiElectronic Visualization Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, 851 S. Morgan St (M/C 152), Room 1120 SEO, Chicago, 60607, IL, US.
Anna TerebusDepartment of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, 851 S. Morgan St (M/C 063), Room 218 SEO, Chicago, 60607, IL, USA.
Jie LiangDepartment of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, 851 S. Morgan St (M/C 063), Room 218 SEO, Chicago, 60607, IL, USA.
G Elisabeta MaraiElectronic Visualization Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, 851 S. Morgan St (M/C 152), Room 1120 SEO, Chicago, 60607, IL, US.
University of Illinois Chicago · US

Funding

Computational assembly of beta-barrel membrane proteinsR01GM079804 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO · PI LIANG, JIE · 2007 to 2016
$2.8M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM079804
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundVisualizing the complex probability landscape of stochastic gene regulatory networks can further biologists' understanding of phenotypic behavior associated with specific genes.

resultsWe present PRODIGEN (PRObability DIstribution of GEne Networks), a web-based visual analysis tool for the systematic exploration of probability distributions over simulation time and state space in such networks. PRODIGEN was designed in collaboration with bioinformaticians who research stochastic gene networks. The analysis tool combines in a novel way existing, expanded, and new visual encodings to capture the time-varying characteristics of probability distributions: spaghetti plots over one dimensional projection, heatmaps of distributions over 2D projections, enhanced with overlaid time curves to display temporal changes, and novel individual glyphs of state information corresponding to particular peaks.

conclusionsWe demonstrate the effectiveness of the tool through two case studies on the computed probabilistic landscape of a gene regulatory network and of a toggle-switch network. Domain expert feedback indicates that our visual approach can help biologists: 1) visualize probabilities of stable states, 2) explore the temporal probability distributions, and 3) discover small peaks in the probability landscape that have potential relation to specific diseases.

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Gene Regulatory NetworksSoftwareComputational BiologyComputer SimulationDatabases, FactualInternetModels, MolecularProbabilityProtein ConformationStochastic ProcessesTranscription, GeneticFeature detection and trackingModelling/SimulationNetwork analysisSystems biology

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PMID28251874
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