Including transcription factor information in the superparamagnetic clustering of microarray data

M.P. Monsiváis-Alonso, J.C. Navarro-Muñoz, L. Riego-Ruiz, R. López-Sandoval and H.C. Rosu

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2010, vol. 389, issue 24, 5689-5697

Abstract: In this work, we modify the superparamagnetic clustering algorithm (SPC) by adding an extra weight to the interaction formula that considers which genes are regulated by the same transcription factor. With this modified algorithm which we call SPCTF, we analyze the Spellman et al. microarray data for cell cycle genes in yeast, and find clusters with a higher number of elements compared with those obtained with the SPC algorithm. Some of the incorporated genes by using SPCFT were not detected at first by Spellman et al. but were later identified by other studies, whereas several genes still remain unclassified. The clusters composed by unidentified genes were analyzed with MUSA, the motif finding using an unsupervised approach algorithm, and this allow us to select the clusters whose elements contain cell cycle transcription factor binding sites as clusters worthy of further experimental studies because they would probably lead to new cell cycle genes. Finally, our idea of introducing the available information about transcription factors to optimize the gene classification could be implemented for other distance-based clustering algorithms.

Keywords: Superparamagnetic clustering; Similarity measure; Microarrays; Cell cycle genes; Transcription factors (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2010.09.006

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