Causal analysis approaches in Ingenuity Pathway Analysis
Author(s) -
A. Krämer,
Jeff Green,
Jack Pollard,
Stuart Tugendreich
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
bioinformatics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.599
H-Index - 390
eISSN - 1367-4811
pISSN - 1367-4803
DOI - 10.1093/bioinformatics/btt703
Subject(s) - ingenuity , downstream (manufacturing) , upstream (networking) , computer science , network analysis , gene regulatory network , data mining , pathway analysis , contrast (vision) , suite , regulator , analytics , data science , computational biology , artificial intelligence , biology , gene , gene expression , engineering , genetics , computer network , operations management , neoclassical economics , electrical engineering , archaeology , economics , history
Prior biological knowledge greatly facilitates the meaningful interpretation of gene-expression data. Causal networks constructed from individual relationships curated from the literature are particularly suited for this task, since they create mechanistic hypotheses that explain the expression changes observed in datasets.
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