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Assessment of network module identification across complex diseases.

ABSTRACT: Many bioinformatics methods have been proposed for reducing the complexity of large gene or protein networks into relevant subnetworks or modules. Yet, how such methods compare to each other in terms of their ability to identify disease-relevant modules in different types of network remains poorly understood. We launched the 'Disease Module Identification DREAM Challenge', an open competition to comprehensively assess module identification methods across diverse protein-protein interaction, signaling, gene co-expression, homology and cancer-gene networks. Predicted network modules were tested for association with complex traits and diseases using a unique collection of 180 genome-wide association studies. Our robust assessment of 75 module identification methods reveals top-performing algorithms, which recover complementary trait-associated modules. We find that most of these modules correspond to core disease-relevant pathways, which often comprise therapeutic targets. This community challenge establishes biologically interpretable benchmarks, tools and guidelines for molecular network analysis to study human disease biology.

SUBMITTER: Choobdar S

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6719725 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Assessment of network module identification across complex diseases.

Choobdar Sarvenaz S Ahsen Mehmet E ME Crawford Jake J Tomasoni Mattia M Fang Tao T Lamparter David D Lin Junyuan J Hescott Benjamin B Hu Xiaozhe X Mercer Johnathan J Natoli Ted T Narayan Rajiv R Subramanian Aravind A Zhang Jitao D JD Stolovitzky Gustavo G Kutalik Zoltán Z Lage Kasper K Slonim Donna K DK Saez-Rodriguez Julio J Cowen Lenore J LJ Bergmann Sven S Marbach Daniel D

Nature methods 20190830 9

Many bioinformatics methods have been proposed for reducing the complexity of large gene or protein networks into relevant subnetworks or modules. Yet, how such methods compare to each other in terms of their ability to identify disease-relevant modules in different types of network remains poorly understood. We launched the 'Disease Module Identification DREAM Challenge', an open competition to comprehensively assess module identification methods across diverse protein-protein interaction, sign ...[more]

PMID: 31471613

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Project description:BackgroundMolecular interaction networks have become an important tool in providing context to the results of various omics experiments. For example, by integrating transcriptomic data and protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks, one can better understand how the altered expression of several genes are related with one another. The challenge then becomes how to determine, in the context of the interaction network, the subset(s) of genes that best captures the main mechanisms underlying the experimental conditions. Different algorithms have been developed to address this challenge, each with specific biological questions in mind. One emerging area of interest is to determine which genes are equivalently or inversely changed between different experiments. The equivalent change index (ECI) is a recently proposed metric that measures the extent to which a gene is equivalently or inversely regulated between two experiments. The goal of this work is to develop an algorithm that makes use of the ECI and powerful network analysis techniques to identify a connected subset of genes that are highly relevant to the experimental conditions.ResultsTo address the above goal, we developed a method called Active Module identification using Experimental data and Network Diffusion (AMEND). The AMEND algorithm is designed to find a subset of connected genes in a PPI network that have large experimental values. It makes use of random walk with restart to create gene weights, and a heuristic solution to the Maximum-weight Connected Subgraph problem using these weights. This is performed iteratively until an optimal subnetwork (i.e., active module) is found. AMEND was compared to two current methods, NetCore and DOMINO, using two gene expression datasets.ConclusionThe AMEND algorithm is an effective, fast, and easy-to-use method for identifying network-based active modules. It returned connected subnetworks with the largest median ECI by magnitude, capturing distinct but related functional groups of genes. Code is freely available at https://github.com/samboyd0/AMEND .

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