title: A strategy for extracting and analyzing large-scale quantitative epistatic interaction data.
abstract: Recently, approaches have been developed for high-throughput identification of synthetic sick/lethal gene pairs. However, these are only a specific example of the broader phenomenon of epistasis, wherein the presence of one mutation modulates the phenotype of another. We present analysis techniques for generating high-confidence quantitative epistasis scores from measurements made using synthetic genetic array and epistatic miniarray profile (E-MAP) technology, as well as several tools for higher-level analysis of the resulting data that are greatly enhanced by the quantitative score and detection of alleviating interactions.
authors.affiliation: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California-San Francisco and California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research, San Francisco, California 94143, USA. src.science@gmail.com
authors.forename: Sean R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Collins
authors.forename: Maya
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Schuldiner
authors.forename: Nevan J
authors.initials: NJ
authors.lastname: Krogan
authors.forename: Jonathan S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Weissman
mesh_terms: D004843:Epistasis, Genetic; D009154:Mutation; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis; D010641:Phenotype