Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- 1 An Introduction to High-Throughput Bioinformatics Data
- 2 Hierarchical Mixture Models for Expression Profiles
- 3 Bayesian Hierarchical Models for Inference in Microarray Data
- 4 Bayesian Process-Based Modeling of Two-Channel Microarray Experiments: Estimating Absolute mRNA Concentrations
- 5 Identification of Biomarkers in Classification and Clustering of High-Throughput Data
- 6 Modeling Nonlinear Gene Interactions Using Bayesian MARS
- 7 Models for Probability of Under- and Overexpression: The POE Scale
- 8 Sparse Statistical Modelling in Gene Expression Genomics
- 9 Bayesian Analysis of Cell Cycle Gene Expression Data
- 10 Model-Based Clustering for Expression Data via a Dirichlet Process Mixture Model
- 11 Interval Mapping for Expression Quantitative Trait Loci
- 12 Bayesian Mixture Models for Gene Expression and Protein Profiles
- 13 Shrinkage Estimation for SAGE Data Using a Mixture Dirichlet Prior
- 14 Analysis of Mass Spectrometry Data Using Bayesian Wavelet-Based Functional Mixed Models
- 15 Nonparametric Models for Proteomic Peak Identification and Quantification
- 16 Bayesian Modeling and Inference for Sequence Motif Discovery
- 17 Identification of DNA Regulatory Motifs and Regulators by Integrating Gene Expression and Sequence Data
- 18 A Misclassification Model for Inferring Transcriptional Regulatory Networks
- 19 Estimating Cellular Signaling from Transcription Data
- 20 Computational Methods for Learning Bayesian Networks from High-Throughput Biological Data
- 21 Bayesian Networks and Informative Priors: Transcriptional Regulatory Network Models
- 22 Sample Size Choice for Microarray Experiments
- Plate section
21 - Bayesian Networks and Informative Priors: Transcriptional Regulatory Network Models
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 November 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- 1 An Introduction to High-Throughput Bioinformatics Data
- 2 Hierarchical Mixture Models for Expression Profiles
- 3 Bayesian Hierarchical Models for Inference in Microarray Data
- 4 Bayesian Process-Based Modeling of Two-Channel Microarray Experiments: Estimating Absolute mRNA Concentrations
- 5 Identification of Biomarkers in Classification and Clustering of High-Throughput Data
- 6 Modeling Nonlinear Gene Interactions Using Bayesian MARS
- 7 Models for Probability of Under- and Overexpression: The POE Scale
- 8 Sparse Statistical Modelling in Gene Expression Genomics
- 9 Bayesian Analysis of Cell Cycle Gene Expression Data
- 10 Model-Based Clustering for Expression Data via a Dirichlet Process Mixture Model
- 11 Interval Mapping for Expression Quantitative Trait Loci
- 12 Bayesian Mixture Models for Gene Expression and Protein Profiles
- 13 Shrinkage Estimation for SAGE Data Using a Mixture Dirichlet Prior
- 14 Analysis of Mass Spectrometry Data Using Bayesian Wavelet-Based Functional Mixed Models
- 15 Nonparametric Models for Proteomic Peak Identification and Quantification
- 16 Bayesian Modeling and Inference for Sequence Motif Discovery
- 17 Identification of DNA Regulatory Motifs and Regulators by Integrating Gene Expression and Sequence Data
- 18 A Misclassification Model for Inferring Transcriptional Regulatory Networks
- 19 Estimating Cellular Signaling from Transcription Data
- 20 Computational Methods for Learning Bayesian Networks from High-Throughput Biological Data
- 21 Bayesian Networks and Informative Priors: Transcriptional Regulatory Network Models
- 22 Sample Size Choice for Microarray Experiments
- Plate section
Summary
Abstract
We discuss the use of Bayesian networks as robust probabilistic models of the multivariate statistical dependencies among interacting variables in transcriptional regulatory networks. We explain how principled scores can be computed to compare network models with one another in terms of their ability to explain observed data simply. With principled scores, we can automatically learn static or dynamic network models that provide simple explanations for a variety of high-throughput data. We make a case for, and demonstrate the utility of, informative priors over network structures and parameters: informative priors can be used to incorporate different kinds of data into the learning process, and also to guide the learning process toward network models that exhibit greater biological plausibility. Results from both simulated and experimental data illustrate the benefits of this modeling framework.
Introduction
Proteins are the primary molecular workhorses of the cell, playing significant roles in metabolism, biosynthesis and degradation, transport, homeostasis, structure and scaffolding, motility, sensing, signaling and signal transduction, replication, and repair. However, one of the most intriguing roles for proteins is that of transcriptional regulation: control of precisely which genes are being transcribed into RNA at any given time. Since ribosomes subsequently translate most of this RNA into protein, proteins are in large part responsible for regulating their own existence. Although much has been learned about the large network of molecular interactions that regulate transcription, it would probably be fair to say that far more still remains to be learned.
Discovering and understanding the operation of large transcriptional regulatory networks is clearly an important problem in both molecular and synthetic biology.
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- Bayesian Inference for Gene Expression and Proteomics , pp. 401 - 424Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006
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