title: Discovering the transcriptional modules using microarray data by penalized matrix decomposition.
abstract: Uncovering the transcriptional modules with context-specific cellular activities or functions is important for understanding biological network, deciphering regulatory mechanisms and identifying biomarkers. In this paper, we propose to use the penalized matrix decomposition (PMD) to discover the transcriptional modules from microarray data. With the sparsity constraint on the decomposition factors, metagenes can be extracted from the gene expression data and they can well capture the intrinsic patterns of genes with the similar functions. Meanwhile, the PMD factors of each gene are good indicators of the cluster it belongs to. Compared with traditional methods, our method can cluster genes of similar functions but without similar expression profiles. It can also assign a gene into different modules. Moreover, the clustering results by our method are stable and more biologically relevant transcriptional modules can be discovered. Experimental results on two public datasets show that the proposed PMD based method is promising to discover transcriptional modules.
authors: College of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Anhui University, Hefei, Anhui, China.
authors: Jun
authors: J
authors: Zhang
authors: Chun-Hou
authors: CH
authors: Zheng
authors: Jin-Xing
authors: JX
authors: Liu
authors: Hong-Qiang
authors: HQ
authors: Wang
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003198:Computer Simulation; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis / Q000379:methods*; D059467:Transcriptome