Combining instantaneous and time-delayed interactions between genes - a two phase algorithm based on information theory

  • Authors:
  • Nizamul Morshed;Madhu Chetty

  • Affiliations:
  • Monash University, Australia;Monash University, Australia

  • Venue:
  • AI'11 Proceedings of the 24th international conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Understanding the way how genes interact is one of the fundamental questions in systems biology. The modeling of gene regulations currently assumes that genes interact either instantaneously or with a certain amount of time delay. In this paper, we propose an information theory based novel two-phase gene regulatory network (GRN) inference algorithm using the Bayesian network formalism that can model both instantaneous and single-step time-delayed interactions between genes simultaneously. We show the effectiveness of our approach by applying it to the analysis of synthetic data as well as the Saccharomyces cerevisiae gene expression data.