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ArticleMolecular systems biology2020

Learning causal networks using inducible transcription factors and transcriptome-wide time series.

Sean R Hackett, Edward A Baltz, Marc Coram, Bernd J Wranik, Griffin Kim, Adam Baker, Minjie Fan, David G Hendrickson, Marc Berndl, R Scott McIsaac

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Article in Molecular systems biology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 46 papers.

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46 citing papers in PubMed, 96 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Sean R HackettCalico Life Sciences LLC, South San Francisco, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9553-4341
Edward A BaltzGoogle Research, Mountain View, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4827-1542
Marc CoramGoogle Research, Mountain View, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8877-2501
Bernd J WranikCalico Life Sciences LLC, South San Francisco, CA, USA.
Griffin KimCalico Life Sciences LLC, South San Francisco, CA, USA.
Adam BakerCalico Life Sciences LLC, South San Francisco, CA, USA.
Minjie FanGoogle Research, Mountain View, CA, USA.
David G HendricksonCalico Life Sciences LLC, South San Francisco, CA, USA.
Marc BerndlGoogle Research, Mountain View, CA, USA.
R Scott McIsaacCalico Life Sciences LLC, South San Francisco, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5339-6032
Enzo Life Sciences (United States) · USGoogle (United States) · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We present IDEA (the Induction Dynamics gene Expression Atlas), a dataset constructed by independently inducing hundreds of transcription factors (TFs) and measuring timecourses of the resulting gene expression responses in budding yeast. Each experiment captures a regulatory cascade connecting a single induced regulator to the genes it causally regulates. We discuss the regulatory cascade of a single TF, Aft1, in detail; however, IDEA contains > 200 TF induction experiments with 20 million individual observations and 100,000 signal-containing dynamic responses. As an application of IDEA, we integrate all timecourses into a whole-cell transcriptional model, which is used to predict and validate multiple new and underappreciated transcriptional regulators. We also find that the magnitudes of coefficients in this model are predictive of genetic interaction profile similarities. In addition to being a resource for exploring regulatory connectivity between TFs and their target genes, our modeling approach shows that combining rapid perturbations of individual genes with genome-scale time-series measurements is an effective strategy for elucidating gene regulatory networks.

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AlgorithmsComputational BiologyDatabases, GeneticFungal ProteinsGene Expression ProfilingGene Expression RegulationSaccharomycetalesTranscription FactorsFungal ProteinsTranscription Factorscausal inferencedynamical systemsgene expressiontranscription factorswhole-cell modeling

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PMID32181581
PMCPMC7076914
OpenAlexW3011348378

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