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Tu S, et al.  (2012) Transcription network analysis by a sparse binary factor analysis algorithm. J Integr Bioinform 9(2):198

Abstract: Transcription factor activities (TFAs), rather than expression levels, control gene expression and provide valuable information for investigating TF-gene regulations. The underlying bimodal or switch-like patterns of TFAs may play important roles in gene regulation. Network Component Analysis (NCA) is a popular method to deduce TFAs and TF-gene control strengths from microarray data. However, it does not directly examine the bimodality of TFAs and it needs TF-gene connection topology a priori known. In this paper, we modify NCA to model gene expression regulation by Binary Factor Analysis (BFA), which directly captures switch-like patterns of TFAs. Moreover, sparse technique is employed on the mixing matrix of BFA, and thus the proposed sparse BYY-BFA algorithm, developed under Bayesian Ying-Yang (BYY) learning framework, can not only uncover the latent TFA profile’s switch-like patterns, but also be capable of automatically shutting off the unnecessary connections. Simulation study demonstrates the effectiveness of BYY-BFA, and a preliminary application to Saccharomyces cerevisiae cell cycle data and Escherichia coli carbon source transition data shows that the reconstructed binary patterns of TFAs by BYY-BFA are consistent with the ups and downs of TFAs by NCA, and that BYY-BFA also works well when the network topology is unknown.

Status: Published

Type: Journal Article

PubMed ID: 22820312

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