Intelligent Topological Differential Gene
Networks
Mrityunjay Sarkar and Aurpan Majumder
Abstract Microarray gene expression profiles are frequently explored to under-
stand the causal factors associated with some disease. To date, most of the research
being conducted is restricted upon comparison of expression values across more
than one condition or the discovery of genes having altered interaction levels with
neighbours across conditions. Therefore, differential expression (DE), gene corre-
lation and co-expression have been intensively studied using microarray gene
expression profiles. However, in the recent past the focus has been shifted towards
conglomeration of differential expression and differential connectivity properties to
gain a better insight of the problem, such as investigating the topological overlap
(TO) of the network formed by DE genes using the generalized topological overlap
measure (GTOM). In this work, we explore through the unweighted–TO networks
which requires selection of a smart threshold to transform the GTOM structure into
a differential network. The essence of our work lies in the generation of a series of
GTOM threshold pairs across different conditions from which the best threshold
pair for a network (across different conditions) is selected by comparing the
cumulative effect of TO and p-value obtained from the series of threshold pairs.
Keywords Peripheral blood
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Influenza
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Topological overlap (TO)
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Generalized topological overlap measure (GTOM)
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Unweighted TO
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cTOP
M. Sarkar (
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Department of ECE, D.I.A.T.M Durgapur, Durgapur, India
e-mail: mrityu1488@gmail.com
A. Majumder
Department of ECE, N.I.T Durgapur, Durgapur, India
e-mail: aurpan.nitd@gmail.com
© Springer India 2016
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