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ArticlePLoS computational biology2024

iModulonMiner and PyModulon: Software for unsupervised mining of gene expression compendia.

Anand V Sastry, Yuan Yuan, Saugat Poudel, Kevin Rychel, Reo Yoo, Cameron R Lamoureux, Gaoyuan Li, Joshua T Burrows, Siddharth Chauhan, Zachary B Haiman and 4 more

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Article in PLoS computational biology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors.

Anand V SastryDepartment of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0002-8293-3909
Yuan YuanDepartment of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America.
Saugat PoudelDepartment of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America.
Kevin RychelDepartment of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America.
Reo YooDepartment of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America.
Cameron R LamoureuxDepartment of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America.
Gaoyuan LiDepartment of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America.
Joshua T BurrowsDepartment of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America.
Siddharth ChauhanDepartment of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0001-6674-895X
Zachary B HaimanDepartment of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America.
Tahani Al BulushiDepartment of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America.
Yara SeifDepartment of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America.
Bernhard O PalssonDepartment of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America.
Daniel C ZielinskiDepartment of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0001-6452-483X

Funding

Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability and the Technical University of Denmark NNF20CC0035580
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Public gene expression databases are a rapidly expanding resource of organism responses to diverse perturbations, presenting both an opportunity and a challenge for bioinformatics workflows to extract actionable knowledge of transcription regulatory network function. Here, we introduce a five-step computational pipeline, called iModulonMiner, to compile, process, curate, analyze, and characterize the totality of RNA-seq data for a given organism or cell type. This workflow is centered around the data-driven computation of co-regulated gene sets using Independent Component Analysis, called iModulons, which have been shown to have broad applications. As a demonstration, we applied this workflow to generate the iModulon structure of Bacillus subtilis using all high-quality, publicly-available RNA-seq data. Using this structure, we predicted regulatory interactions for multiple transcription factors, identified groups of co-expressed genes that are putatively regulated by undiscovered transcription factors, and predicted properties of a recently discovered single-subunit phage RNA polymerase. We also present a Python package, PyModulon, with functions to characterize, visualize, and explore computed iModulons. The pipeline, available at https://github.com/SBRG/iModulonMiner, can be readily applied to diverse organisms to gain a rapid understanding of their transcriptional regulatory network structure and condition-specific activity.

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Bacillus subtilisComputational BiologyData MiningGene Regulatory NetworksSoftwareDatabases, GeneticGene Expression ProfilingGene Expression Regulation, BacterialTranscription FactorsTranscription Factors

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PMID39441835
PMCPMC11534266

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