• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2007.04a
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• pp.237-240
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 유전자 발현데이터로부터 유전자 조절네트워크를 추론하는 유전자 알고리즘을 제안한다. 근래에 유전자 알고리즘을 이용하여 유전자 조절네트워크를 추론하려는 시도가 있었으나 그리 성공적이지 못하였다. 우리는 본 논문에서 유전자 조절네트워크를 보다 효율적으로 추론할 수 있게 하기 위하여 새로운 유전자 인코딩 기법을 개발하여 적용하였다. 선형 유전자 조절네트워크로 모델링 된 인공 유전자 조절네트워크를 사용하여 실험한 결과 대부분의 경우에 있어서 주어진 인공 유전자 조절네트워크와 유사한 네트워크를 추론하였으며 완전히 동일한 유전자네트워크를 추론하기도 하였다. 향후 실제 유전자 발현 데이터를 이용하여 추론해 보는 것이 필요하다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Bioinformatics Conference
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• 2005.09a
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• pp.339-343
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• 2005

Boolean networks(BN) construction is one of the commonly used methods for building gene networks from time series microarray data. However, BN has two major drawbacks. First, it requires heavy computing times. Second, the binary transformation of the microarray data may cause a loss of information. This paper propose two methods using liner regression to construct gene regulatory networks. The first proposed method uses regression based BN variable selection method, which reduces the computing time significantly in the BN construction. The second method is the regression based network method that can flexibly incorporate the interaction of the genes using continuous gene expression data. We construct the network structure from the simulated data to compare the computing times between Boolean networks and the proposed method. The regression based network method is evaluated using a microarray data of cell cycle in Caulobacter crescentus.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Bioinformatics Conference
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• 2005.09a
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• pp.202-205
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• 2005

Cell phenotypes are determined by the concerted activity of thousands of genes and their products. This activity is coordinated by a complex network that regulates the expression of genes. Understanding this organization is crucial to elucidate cellular activities, and many researches have tried to construct gene regulatory networks from mRNA expression data which are nowadays the most available and have a lot of information for cellular processes. Several computational tools, such as Boolean network, Qualitative network, Bayesian network, and so on, have been applied to infer these networks. Among them, Bayesian networks that we chose as the inference tool have been often used in this field recently due to their well-established theoretical foundation and statistical robustness. However, the relative insufficiency of experiments with respect to the number of genes leads to many false positive inferences. To alleviate this problem, we had developed the algorithm of MONET(MOdularized NETwork learning), which is a new method for inferring modularized gene networks by utilizing two complementary sources of information: biological annotations and gene expression. Afterward, we have packaged and improved MONET by combining dispersed functional blocks, extending species which can be inputted in this system, reducing the time complexities by improving algorithms, and simplifying input/output formats and parameters so that it can be utilized in actual fields. In this paper, we present the architecture of MONET system that we have improved.