title: Application of random matrix theory to microarray data for discovering functional gene modules.
abstract: We show that spectral fluctuation of coexpression correlation matrices of yeast gene microarray profiles follows the description of the Gaussian orthogonal ensemble (GOE) of the random matrix theory (RMT) and removal of small values of the correlation coefficients results in a transition from the GOE statistics to the Poisson statistics of the RMT. This transition is directly related to the structural change of the gene expression network from a global network to a network of isolated modules.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science, Clemson University, 100 McAdams Hall, Clemson, South Carolina 29634, USA.
authors.forename: Feng
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Luo
authors.forename: Jianxin
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhong
authors.forename: Yunfeng
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Jizhong
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhou
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D000818:Animals; D003198:Computer Simulation; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling / Q000379:methods*; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008957:Models, Genetic; D015233:Models, Statistical; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis / Q000379:methods*; D020543:Proteome / Q000378:metabolism*; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D020543:Proteome