title: Partially observed bipartite network analysis to identify predictive connections in transcriptional regulatory networks.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Messenger RNA expression is regulated by a complex interplay of different regulatory proteins. Unfortunately, directly measuring the individual activity of these regulatory proteins is difficult, leaving us with only the resulting gene expression pattern as a marker for the underlying regulatory network or regulator-gene associations. Furthermore, traditional methods to predict these regulator-gene associations do not define the relative importance of each association, leading to a large number of connections in the global regulatory network that, although true, are not useful.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Here we present a Bayesian method that identifies which known transcriptional relationships in a regulatory network are consistent with a given body of static gene expression data by eliminating the non-relevant ones. The Partially Observed Bipartite Network (POBN) approach developed here is tested using E. coli expression data and a transcriptional regulatory network derived from RegulonDB. When the regulatory network for E. coli was integrated with 266 E. coli gene chip observations, POBN identified 93 out of 570 connections that were either inconsistent or not adequately supported by the expression data.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  POBN provides a systematic way to integrate known transcriptional networks with observed gene expression data to better identify which transcriptional pathways are likely responsible for the observed gene expression pattern.
authors: Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA. angelpr@umich.edu
authors: Angel
authors: A
authors: Alvarez
authors: Peter J
authors: PJ
authors: Woolf
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