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ArticleNPJ systems biology and applications2017

On the performance of de novo pathway enrichment.

Richa Batra, Nicolas Alcaraz, Kevin Gitzhofer, Josch Pauling, Henrik J Ditzel, Marc Hellmuth, Jan Baumbach, Markus List

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Article in NPJ systems biology and applications, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

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Richa BatraDepartment of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0003-3708-0086
Nicolas AlcarazDepartment of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0003-0839-8423
Kevin GitzhoferCenter for Bioinformatics, Saarland University Campus, Saarbrücken, Germany.
Josch PaulingDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.
Henrik J DitzelDepartment of Cancer and Inflammation Research, Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0003-3927-5135
Marc HellmuthCenter for Bioinformatics, Saarland University Campus, Saarbrücken, Germany.
Jan BaumbachDepartment of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.
Markus ListComputational Biology and Applied Algorithmics, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarland Informatics Campus, Saarbrücken, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-0941-4168

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

De novo pathway enrichment is a powerful approach to discover previously uncharacterized molecular mechanisms in addition to already known pathways. To achieve this, condition-specific functional modules are extracted from large interaction networks. Here, we give an overview of the state of the art and present the first framework for assessing the performance of existing methods. We identified 19 tools and selected seven representative candidates for a comparative analysis with more than 12,000 runs, spanning different biological networks, molecular profiles, and parameters. Our results show that none of the methods consistently outperforms the others. To mitigate this issue for biomedical researchers, we provide guidelines to choose the appropriate tool for a given dataset. Moreover, our framework is the first attempt for a quantitative evaluation of de novo methods, which will allow the bioinformatics community to objectively compare future tools against the state of the art.

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PMCPMC5445589

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