Identification of critical genes in microarray experiments by a Neuro-Fuzzy approach

Authors:
Chin-Fu Chen;Xin Feng;Jack Szeto
Affiliations:
Department of Genetics and Biochemistry, 100 Jordan Hall, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina 29634, USA;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53233, USA;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53233, USA
Venue:
Computational Biology and Chemistry
Year:
2006

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Abstract

Gene expression profiling by microarray technology is usually difficult to interpret into a simpler pattern. One approach to resolve the complexity of gene expression profiles is the application of artificial neural networks (ANNs). A potential difficulty in this strategy, however, is that the non-linear nature of ANN makes it essentially a 'black-box' computation process. Addition of a fuzzy logic approach is useful because it can complement ANN by explicitly specifying membership function during computation. We employed a hybrid approach of neural network and fuzzy logic to further analyze a published microarray study of gene responses to eight bacteria in human macrophages. The original analysis by hierarchical clustering found common gene responses to all bacteria but did not address individual responses. Our method allowed exploration of the gene response of the host to individual bacterium. We implemented a two-layer, feed-forward neural network containing the principle of 'competitive learning' (i.e. 'winner-take-all'). The weights of the trained neural network were fed into a fuzzy logic inference system. A new measurement, called the impact rating (IR) was also introduced to explore the degree of importance of each gene. To assess the reliability of the IR value, a bootstrap re-sampling method was applied to the dataset and a confidence level for each IR was obtained. Our approach has successfully uncovered the unique features of host response to individual bacterium. Further, application of gene ontology (GO) annotation to the genes of high IR values in each response has suggested new biological pathways for individual host-pathogen interactions.