Abstract
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) have significant biological roles at the molecular level by regulating genes post-transcriptionally. To understand the functional effects of miRNAs in different biological contexts, it is essential to elucidate miRNA-mRNA regulatory modules (MRMs). The computational complexity for inferencing MRMs is very high due to the many-to-many relationships between miRNAs and mRNAs and inferencing MRMs is still a challenging unresolved problem. In this paper, we propose a novel iterative segmented least square method for functional MRM discovery. Our method operates in two steps: 1) grouping and ordering the miRNAs and mRNAs to build per-sample matrices representing miRNA-mRNA regulations, and 2) determining maximum sized modules from structured miRNA-mRNA matrices. In experiments with human breast cancer data sets from TCGA, we show that our method outperforms existing methods in terms of both GO similarity and cluster evaluation. In addition, we show that modules determined by our method can be used for breast cancer survival prediction and subtype classification.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings - 2016 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2016 |
| Editors | Kevin Burrage, Qian Zhu, Yunlong Liu, Tianhai Tian, Yadong Wang, Xiaohua Tony Hu, Qinghua Jiang, Jiangning Song, Shinichi Morishita, Kevin Burrage, Guohua Wang |
| Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. |
| Pages | 767-770 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781509016105 |
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| State | Published - 17 Jan 2017 |
| Event | 2016 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2016 - Shenzhen, China Duration: 15 Dec 2016 → 18 Dec 2016 |
Publication series
| Name | Proceedings - 2016 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2016 |
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Conference
| Conference | 2016 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2016 |
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| Country/Territory | China |
| City | Shenzhen |
| Period | 15/12/16 → 18/12/16 |
UN SDGs
This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
Keywords
- MicroRNA
- Optimization
- Regulatory network inference
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