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. 2016 Nov 28;45(4):2221. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkw1160

A prior-based integrative framework for functional transcriptional regulatory network inference

Alireza F Siahpirani 1, Sushmita Roy 2,3,*
PMCID: PMC5389683  PMID: 27899626

Nucl. Acids Res. (2016) doi: 10.1093/nar/gkw963

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Figure 1.

Figure 1.

Overview of our approach to integrate diverse regulatory genomic datasets as structure priors. Inline graphic and Inline graphic denote a regulator (such as a transcription factor) and a target gene respectively. For each candidate edge Inline graphic, different sources of prior networks can be used. The figure shows three different types of prior networks: ChIP, Motif and Knockout. Each prior network can be weighted, for example Inline graphic denotes the weight of the regulatory edge in the motif network. Different prior networks are combined to specify the prior probability of an edge using a single logistic function with prior parameters β0, βM, βK, βC. β° controls for network sparsity, while the other parameters specify importance of the prior networks. The regulatory network is itself represented as a dependency network learned by estimating a set of conditional probability distributions. In the example, the conditional distribution of the target gene X4 is specified by three regulators, X1, X2, X3. Ψ denotes a particular form of conditional probability distributions that is parameterized by Θ.


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