Enhancing Interpretability of Gene Signatures with Prior Biological Knowledge

Biological interpretability is a key requirement for the output of microarray data analysis pipelines. The most used pipeline first identifies a gene signature from the acquired measurements and then uses gene enrichment analysis as a tool for functionally characterizing the obtained results. Recent...

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Published in:Microarrays (Basel, Switzerland) Switzerland), 2016-06, Vol.5 (2), p.15
Main Authors: Squillario, Margherita, Barbieri, Matteo, Verri, Alessandro, Barla, Annalisa
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Language:English
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Summary:Biological interpretability is a key requirement for the output of microarray data analysis pipelines. The most used pipeline first identifies a gene signature from the acquired measurements and then uses gene enrichment analysis as a tool for functionally characterizing the obtained results. Recently Knowledge Driven Variable Selection (KDVS), an alternative approach which performs both steps at the same time, has been proposed. In this paper, we assess the effectiveness of KDVS against standard approaches on a Parkinson's Disease (PD) dataset. The presented quantitative analysis is made possible by the construction of a reference list of genes and gene groups associated to PD. Our work shows that KDVS is much more effective than the standard approach in enhancing the interpretability of the obtained results.
ISSN:2076-3905
2076-3905
DOI:10.3390/microarrays5020015