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ArticleMolecular systems biology2021

DOMINO: a network-based active module identification algorithm with reduced rate of false calls.

Hagai Levi, Ran Elkon, Ron Shamir

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Hagai LeviThe Blavatnik School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Ran ElkonDepartment of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.ORCID 0000-0003-3440-1286
Ron ShamirThe Blavatnik School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.ORCID 0000-0003-1889-9870

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Abstract

Algorithms for active module identification (AMI) are central to analysis of omics data. Such algorithms receive a gene network and nodes' activity scores as input and report subnetworks that show significant over-representation of accrued activity signal ("active modules"), thus representing biological processes that presumably play key roles in the analyzed conditions. Here, we systematically evaluated six popular AMI methods on gene expression and GWAS data. We observed that GO terms enriched in modules detected on the real data were often also enriched on modules found on randomly permuted data. This indicated that AMI methods frequently report modules that are not specific to the biological context measured by the analyzed omics dataset. To tackle this bias, we designed a permutation-based method that empirically evaluates GO terms reported by AMI methods. We used the method to fashion five novel AMI performance criteria. Last, we developed DOMINO, a novel AMI algorithm, that outperformed the other six algorithms in extensive testing on GE and GWAS data. Software is available at https://github.com/Shamir-Lab.

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Gene Regulatory NetworksAlgorithmsComputational BiologyGene Expression ProfilingGenome-Wide Association StudyHumansMolecular Sequence AnnotationSoftwarebiological networksenrichment analysisGO termsmodule discoveryomics

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