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ArticlePLoS computational biology2021

Independent component analysis recovers consistent regulatory signals from disparate datasets.

Anand V Sastry, Alyssa Hu, David Heckmann, Saugat Poudel, Erol Kavvas, Bernhard O Palsson

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Article in PLoS computational biology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.

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Anand V SastryDepartment of Bioengineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0002-8293-3909
Alyssa HuDepartment of Bioengineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0003-0152-1580
David HeckmannDepartment of Bioengineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0003-1422-1712
Saugat PoudelDepartment of Bioengineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0002-3732-2463
Erol KavvasDepartment of Bioengineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0003-2525-0818
Bernhard O PalssonDepartment of Bioengineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The availability of bacterial transcriptomes has dramatically increased in recent years. This data deluge could result in detailed inference of underlying regulatory networks, but the diversity of experimental platforms and protocols introduces critical biases that could hinder scalable analysis of existing data. Here, we show that the underlying structure of the E. coli transcriptome, as determined by Independent Component Analysis (ICA), is conserved across multiple independent datasets, including both RNA-seq and microarray datasets. We subsequently combined five transcriptomics datasets into a large compendium containing over 800 expression profiles and discovered that its underlying ICA-based structure was still comparable to that of the individual datasets. With this understanding, we expanded our analysis to over 3,000 E. coli expression profiles and predicted three high-impact regulons that respond to oxidative stress, anaerobiosis, and antibiotic treatment. ICA thus enables deep analysis of disparate data to uncover new insights that were not visible in the individual datasets.

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Databases, GeneticTranscriptomeAlgorithmsComputational BiologyEscherichia coliGene Expression ProfilingLinear ModelsOligonucleotide Array Sequence AnalysisPrincipal Component AnalysisRNA-Seq

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PMID33529205
PMCPMC7888660

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