LogicNet: probabilistic continuous logics in reconstructing gene regulatory networks.

Journal: BMC bioinformatics
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Gene Regulatory Networks (GRNs) have been previously studied by using Boolean/multi-state logics. While the gene expression values are usually scaled into the range [0, 1], these GRN inference methods apply a threshold to discretize the data, resulting in missing information. Most of studies apply fuzzy logics to infer the logical gene-gene interactions from continuous data. However, all these approaches require an a priori known network structure.

Authors

  • Seyed Amir Malekpour
    School of Biological Sciences, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran, Iran. a.malekpour@ut.ac.ir.
  • Amir Reza Alizad-Rahvar
    School of Biological Sciences, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran, Iran.
  • Mehdi Sadeghi
    National Institute of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Tehran, Iran.