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A major challenge in biomedical data science is to identify the causal genes underlying complex genetic diseases. Despite the massive influx of genome sequencing data, identifying disease-relevant genes remains difficult as individuals with…
The regularized random forest (RRF) was recently proposed for feature selection by building only one ensemble. In RRF the features are evaluated on a part of the training data at each tree node. We derive an upper bound for the number of…
Network-based computational approaches to predict unknown genes associated with certain diseases are of considerable significance for uncovering the molecular basis of human diseases. In this paper, we proposed a kind of new…
Machine learning methods can detect complex relationships between variables, but usually do not exploit domain knowledge. This is a limitation because in many scientific disciplines, such as systems biology, domain knowledge is available in…
Diseases involve complex processes and modifications to the cellular machinery. The gene expression profile of the affected cells contains characteristic patterns linked to a disease. Hence, biological knowledge pertaining to a disease can…
Reconstruction of gene regulatory networks is the process of identifying gene dependency from gene expression profile through some computation techniques. In our human body, though all cells pose similar genetic material but the activation…
Cancer disease occurs because of a disorder in the cellular regulatory mechanism, Which causes cellular malformation. The genes that start the malformation are called Cancer driver genes (CDGs) . Numerous computational methods have been…
Identification of disease genes, which are a set of genes associated with a disease, plays an important role in understanding and curing diseases. In this paper, we present a biomedical knowledge graph designed specifically for this…
We predict disease-genes relations on the Human Interactome network using a methodology that jointly learns functional and connectivity patterns surrounding proteins. Contrary to other data structures, the Interactome is characterized by…
Disease-gene association through Genome-wide association study (GWAS) is an arduous task for researchers. Investigating single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that correlate with specific diseases needs statistical analysis of associations.…
Motivation: Modules in gene coexpression networks (GCN) can be regarded as gene groups with individual relationships. No studies have optimized module detection methods to extract diverse gene groups from GCN, especially for data from…
This work proposes a unified framework to leverage biological information in network propagation-based gene prioritization algorithms. Preliminary results on breast cancer data show significant improvements over state-of-the-art baselines,…
Recently, several classifiers that combine primary tumor data, like gene expression data, and secondary data sources, such as protein-protein interaction networks, have been proposed for predicting outcome in breast cancer. In these…
One of the important issues in oncology is finding the genes that perturbation the cell functionality, and result in cancer propagation. The genes, namely driver genes, when they mutate in expression, result in cancer through activation of…
The advent of high--throughput transcription profiling technologies has enabled identification of genes and pathways associated with disease, providing new avenues for precision medicine. A key challenge is to analyze this data in the…
Gene expression-based heterogeneity analysis has been extensively conducted. In recent studies, it has been shown that network-based analysis, which takes a system perspective and accommodates the interconnections among genes, can be more…
Motivation: The reconstruction of gene networks from gene expression microarrays is gaining popularity as methods improve and as more data become available. The reliability of such networks could be judged by the probability that a…
Identifying measurable genetic indicators (or biomarkers) of a specific condition of a biological system is a key element of precision medicine. Indeed it allows to tailor diagnostic, prognostic and treatment choice to individual…
Inferring genetic networks from gene expression data is one of the most challenging work in the post-genomic era, partly due to the vast space of possible networks and the relatively small amount of data available. In this field, Gaussian…
Genomic alterations lead to cancer complexity and form a major hurdle for a comprehensive understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying oncogenesis. In this review, we describe the recent advances in studying cancer-associated genes…