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Finding novel relationships with integrated gene-gene association network analysis of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 using species-independent text-mining
List of Authors: Sanna M. Kreula, Suwisa Kaewphan, Filip Ginter, Patrik R. Jones
Publication year: 2018
Journal: PeerJ
Journal acronym: PeerJ
Article number: 29844966
Volume number: 6
Issue number: e4806
Number of pages: 26
ISSN: 2167-8359
eISSN: 2167-8359
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4806
URL: https://peerj.com/articles/4806/
Self-archived copy’s web address: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/32074991
The increasing move towards open access full-text scientific literature
enhances our ability to utilize advanced text-mining methods to
construct information-rich networks that no human will be able to grasp
simply from 'reading the literature'. The utility of text-mining for
well-studied species is obvious though the utility for less studied
species, or those with no prior track-record at all, is not clear. Here
we present a concept for how advanced text-mining can be used to create
information-rich networks even for less well studied species and apply
it to generate an open-access gene-gene association network resource for
Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803, a representative model organism for
cyanobacteria and first case-study for the methodology. By merging the
text-mining network with networks generated from species-specific
experimental data, network integration was used to enhance the accuracy
of predicting novel interactions that are biologically relevant. A
rule-based algorithm (filter) was constructed in order to automate the
search for novel candidate genes with a high degree of likely
association to known target genes by (1) ignoring established
relationships from the existing literature, as they are already 'known',
and (2) demanding multiple independent evidences for every novel and
potentially relevant relationship. Using selected case studies, we
demonstrate the utility of the network resource and filter to (i) discover novel candidate associations between different genes or proteins in the network, and (ii)
rapidly evaluate the potential role of any one particular gene or
protein. The full network is provided as an open-source resource.
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