Our group has recently developed gene@home, a BOINC project that permits to search for candidate genes for the expansion of a gene regulatory network using gene expression data. The gene@home project adopts intensive variable-subsetting strategies enabled by the computational power provided by the volunteers who have joined the project by means of the BOINC client, and exploits the PC algorithm for discovering putative causal relationships within each subset of variables. This paper presents our TN-Grid infrastructure that is hosting the gene@home project. Gene@home implements a novel method for Network Expansion by Subsetting and Ranking Aggregation (NESRA), producing a list of genes that are candidates for the gene network expansion task. NESRA is an algorithm that has: 1) a ranking procedure that systematically subsets the variables; the subsetting is iterated several times and a ranked list of candidates is produced by counting the number of times a relationship is found; 2) several ranking steps are executed with different values of the dimension of the subsets and with different number of iterations producing several ranked lists; 3) the ranked lists are aggregated by using a state-of-the-art ranking aggregator. In our experimental results, we show that a single ranking step is enough to outperform both PC and PC*. Evaluations and experiments are done by means of the gene@home project on a real gene regulatory network of the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana
Asnicar, F.; Erculiani, L.; Galante, F.; Gallo, C.; Masera, L.; Morettin, P.; Nadir Sella, N.; Semeniuta, S.; Tolio, T.; Malacarne, G.; Engelen, K.A.; Argentini, A.; Cavecchia, V.; Moser, C.; Blanzieri, E. (2015). Discovering candidates for gene network expansion by distributed volunteer computing.. In: 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Parallelism in Bioinformatics held in conjunction with IEEE ISPA-15 (PBio 2015 Symposium), Helsinki, Finland, 20-22 August 2015. url: https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/ISPA2015/pbio2015/ handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10449/25529
Discovering candidates for gene network expansion by distributed volunteer computing.
Malacarne, Giulia;Engelen, Kristof Arthur;Moser, Claudio;
2015-01-01
Abstract
Our group has recently developed gene@home, a BOINC project that permits to search for candidate genes for the expansion of a gene regulatory network using gene expression data. The gene@home project adopts intensive variable-subsetting strategies enabled by the computational power provided by the volunteers who have joined the project by means of the BOINC client, and exploits the PC algorithm for discovering putative causal relationships within each subset of variables. This paper presents our TN-Grid infrastructure that is hosting the gene@home project. Gene@home implements a novel method for Network Expansion by Subsetting and Ranking Aggregation (NESRA), producing a list of genes that are candidates for the gene network expansion task. NESRA is an algorithm that has: 1) a ranking procedure that systematically subsets the variables; the subsetting is iterated several times and a ranked list of candidates is produced by counting the number of times a relationship is found; 2) several ranking steps are executed with different values of the dimension of the subsets and with different number of iterations producing several ranked lists; 3) the ranked lists are aggregated by using a state-of-the-art ranking aggregator. In our experimental results, we show that a single ranking step is enough to outperform both PC and PC*. Evaluations and experiments are done by means of the gene@home project on a real gene regulatory network of the model plant Arabidopsis thalianaFile | Dimensione | Formato | |
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