Hela基因周期表达数据聚类及功能分析

目的:进一步了解与宫颈癌相关基因的功能以及作用关系.方法:根据Hela基因周期表达数据的时序特点,提出了KLCC聚类法.该方法以K-means法为平台,以基因问的局部相关系数(Local Correlative Coefficient,LCC)为相关性测度,并对K-means法进行了相应的改进,根据基因间的相关关系,分批对基因聚类.结果:在对Hela基因周期表达数据的聚类分析中,得到9个显著的功能类,其中有3个与肿瘤紧密相关,具有优于当前常用算法的性能.结论:KLCC法能够有效地识别Hela基因周期表达数据中的局部相关和异步相关,并对其进行功能显著的聚类,为宫颈癌的基因治疗提供参考和依据.     

基因芯片筛选差异表达基因方法比较

摘要: 使用计算机模拟数据和真实的芯片数据, 对8种筛选差异表达基因的方法进行了比较分析, 旨在比较不同方法对基因芯片数据的筛选效果。模拟数据分析表明, 所使用的8种方法对均匀分布的差异表达基因有很好的识别、检出作用。算法方面, SAM和Wilcoxon秩和检验方法较好; 数据分布方面, 正态分布的识别效果较好, 卡方分布和指数分布的识别效果较差。杨树cDNA芯片分析表明, SAM、Samroc和回归模型方法相近, 而Wilcoxon秩和检验方法与它们有较大差异。     

生物信息学基因表达差异分析

基因的差异化表达由多种因素共同导致,并且与许多疾病的发生和发展有密切联系,对差异化表达的基因进行生物信息学以及生物统计学的分析对于研究细胞调节机制和疾病机理有着重要意义。目前,对差异化表达的基因有以下几种主流的研究方法：DNA微阵列（DNA microarray）,抑制性消减杂交（SSH）,基因表达连续性分析（SAGE）,代表性差异分析（RDA）,以及mRNA差异显示PCR（mRNA DDRT-PCR）。目前许多基因差异化表达数据是建立在时段（time series）基础上,因此对基于时间变化的基因差异化表达分析变得尤为重要。本文将对差异化表达基因的几种主流方法进行详细阐述,并介绍一种基于傅里叶函数的时段基因差异化表达分析。     

不同病原菌刺激下三疣梭子蟹主要组织LGBP基因的时序表达

脂多糖-β-1,3-葡聚糖结合蛋白（lipopolysaccharide-β-1,3-glucan binding protein,LGBP）作为一种模式识别受体能够识别革兰氏阴性菌和真菌的细胞壁多糖成分脂多糖和β-1,3-葡聚糖,在甲壳动物的免疫系统中占有重要地位,为了解LGBP在蟹类动物抗菌免疫应答中的作用,采用SYBR Green I实时荧光定量PCR方法,对分别经溶藻弧菌,酵母菌,溶-酵混合菌、金黄色葡萄球菌刺激6 h、12 h、24 h、48 h的三疣梭子蟹血细胞、肝胰腺、肌肉3种组织LGBP基因的相对表达量进行了检测。结果显示,LGBP基因在3种组织中的时序表达量总体趋势基本一致,呈现＂上升-下降-再上升-下降＂的趋势,各实验组在实验6 h时表达量均达到了峰值;不同病原菌刺激下LGBP基因在梭子蟹肝胰腺和血细胞中的表达量明显高于肌肉,且溶-酵混合菌刺激组织LGBP的表达量最高,酵母菌和溶藻弧菌刺激组次之,金黄色葡萄球菌组最低,说明LGBP主要参与蟹类抵抗革兰氏阴性菌和真菌侵入的免疫防御反应,但对革兰氏阳性菌也有一定的作用。     

外源基因的靶向细胞表达

使外源基因在特定组织细胞中进行表达主要采用两方：一是使用靶向基因载体，这种载体可识别特定组织细胞膜上的一些分子，并与之结合，然后再将外源基因带入细胞中表达；另一种方式是使用组织细胞专一的启动子，来驱动外源基因在该细胞中的特异性表达。     

基于差异共表达识别肝癌分子生物标志物

为了阐明肝细胞癌的分子机制,采用差异共表达的分析方法对TCGA数据库中HCC的转录组数据进行了生物信息学分析,识别出120 787对差异共表达对,其中1 526个基因被认为频繁参与差异共表达.与差异表达分析比较,识别的差异表达基因与差异共表达基因是相互补充的关系;差异共表达基因整合到人类调控网络识别出TP53、NFKB...     

基于基因差异表达的微弱信号识别疾病相关功能

当两组样本间基因表达的差异程度较低或样本量较少时,采用通常的错误发现率(falsediscovery rate,FDR)控制水平(如5%或10%),可能无法识别足够多的差异表达基因以进行后续的功能富集分析。然而,功能富集分析对差异表达基因中的错误发现具有一定的稳健性。所以,采用较低的FDR控制水平(即允许较高的FDR)识别差异表达基因,可能可以可靠地发现疾病相关功能。本文分析了5套研究乳腺癌转移的基因表达谱,通过其中差异表达信号较强的3套数据,论证了即使差异表达基因的FDR达到25%,功能富集分析的结果仍具有较高的稳健性。然后,在另外2套差异表达信号微弱的数据中,采用25%的FDR控制水平筛选差异表达基因来进行功能富集分析,并与前述3套数据的功能富集结果做比较。结果显示,采用较低的FDR控制水平筛选差异表达基因,仍然可以可靠地识别乳腺癌转移相关功能。分析结果也提示,在乳腺癌转移过程中,一些功能较为宽泛的生物学过程(如细胞分裂、细胞周期和DNA复制等)整体受到了扰动,反映出乳腺癌转移是一种涉及广泛基因表达改变的系统性疾病。     

蚕杆状病毒载体表达系统及其在动物疫苗生产中的应用

就杆状病毒的分子生物学特性及其作为表达载体以蚕体表达外源基因的特点和优点进行综述,并对该表达系统在动物疫苗生产中的应用作一简要概述,。     

宫颈癌差异表达基因筛选及功能分析

目的:筛选参与宫颈癌发生、发展的关键基因,为临床诊疗提供新的靶点。方法:在NCBI-GEO数据库中筛选多组宫颈癌基因表达检测数据集,利用GEO2R分析工具筛选各组数据集的差异表达基因;应用R分析筛选不同数据集之间共有的差异表达基因;利用DAVID在线分析对差异表达基因进行功能聚类和通路分析;利用STRING分析差异表达基因编码蛋白之间的相互作用关系。结果:共选择6组表达数据集,筛选得到59个差异表达基因(宫颈癌组织vs正常组织),表达差异至少达2倍,其中包含50个表达上调基因及9个表达下调基因。这些差异表达基因参与细胞周期、DNA复制、细胞分裂等生物进程。蛋白互作分析表明,这些差异表达基因多数存在相互作用。结论:利用生物信息学方法对不同来源的基因检测数据进行整合分析,有助于更准确的筛选对宫颈癌发生、发展过程具有重要作用的关键基因,本文筛选的宫颈癌差异基因为进一步研究宫颈癌发生、发展的分子机制及临床诊疗提供思路。     

复杂疾病驱使的融合SDA-SVM集成基因挖掘方法

提出了一种新颖的复杂疾病驱使的融合SDA-SVM(Stepwise Discriminant Analysis-Support Vector Machine,SDA-SVM)技术的集成基因挖掘方法。该集成方法融合逐步判别分析和支持向量机的优点,能够有效地进行复杂疾病相关基因的深度挖掘,使得挖掘出的基因能够较好地识别疾病类型和亚型。通过将该方法应用于一套弥散性大B细胞淋巴瘤DNA表达谱数据,并与其它基因挖掘方法对比,结果表明该方法挖掘出的基因具有较高的疾病相关性和较强的疾病类型识别能力。     

Time-course analysis of cyanobacterium transcriptome: detecting oscillatory genes

The microarray technique allows the simultaneous measurements of the expression levels of thousands of mRNAs. By mining these data one can identify the dynamics of the gene expression time series. The detection of genes that are periodically expressed is an important step that allows us to study the regulatory mechanisms associated with the circadian cycle. The problem of finding periodicity in biological time series poses many challenges. Such challenge occurs due to the fact that the observed time series usually exhibit non-idealities, such as noise, short length, outliers and unevenly sampled time points. Consequently, the method for finding periodicity should preferably be robust against such anomalies in the data. In this paper, we propose a general and robust procedure for identifying genes with a periodic signature at a given significance level. This identification method is based on autoregressive models and the information theory. By using simulated data we show that the suggested method is capable of identifying rhythmic profiles even in the presence of noise and when the number of data points is small. By recourse of our analysis, we uncover the circadian rhythmic patterns underlying the gene expression profiles from Cyanobacterium Synechocystis.     

Polynomial model approach for resynchronization analysis of cell-cycle gene expression data

MOTIVATION: Identification of genes expressed in a cell-cycle-specific periodical manner is of great interest to understand cyclic systems which play a critical role in many biological processes. However, identification of cell-cycle regulated genes by raw microarray gene expression data directly is complicated by the factor of synchronization loss, thus remains a challenging problem. Decomposing the expression measurements and extracting synchronized expression will allow to better represent the single-cell behavior and improve the accuracy in identifying periodically expressed genes. RESULTS: In this paper, we propose a resynchronization-based algorithm for identifying cell-cycle-related genes. We introduce a synchronization loss model by modeling the gene expression measurements as a superposition of different cell populations growing at different rates. The underlying expression profile is then reconstructed through resynchronization and is further fitted to the measurements in order to identify periodically expressed genes. Results from both simulations and real microarray data show that the proposed scheme is promising for identifying cyclic genes and revealing underlying gene expression profiles. AVAILABILITY: Contact the authors. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at: http://dsplab.eng.umd.edu/~genomics/syn/     

Ranking analysis for identifying differentially expressed genes

Microarrays allow researchers to examine the expression of thousands of genes simultaneously. However, identification of genes differentially expressed in microarray experiments is challenging. With an optimal test statistic, we rank genes and estimate a threshold above which genes are considered to be differentially expressed genes (DE). This overcomes the embarrassing shortcoming of many statistical methods to determine the cut-off values in ranking analysis. Experiments demonstrate that our method is a good performance and avoids the problems with graphical examination and multiple hypotheses testing that affect alternative approaches. Comparing to those well known methods, our method is more sensitive to data sets with small differentially expressed values and not biased in favor of data sets based on certain distribution models.     

Detecting Periodic Genes from Irregularly Sampled Gene Expressions: A Comparison Study

Time series microarray measurements of gene expressions have been exploited to discover genes involved in cell cycles. Due to experimental constraints, most microarray observations are obtained through irregular sampling. In this paper three popular spectral analysis schemes, namely, Lomb-Scargle, Capon and missing-data amplitude and phase estimation (MAPES), are compared in terms of their ability and efficiency to recover periodically expressed genes. Based on in silico experiments for microarray measurements of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Lomb-Scargle is found to be the most efficacious scheme. 149 genes are then identified to be periodically expressed in the Drosophila melanogaster data set.     

Robust discovery of periodically expressed genes using the laplace periodogram

Background  

Time-course gene expression analysis has become important in recent developments due to the increasingly available experimental data. The detection of genes that are periodically expressed is an important step which allows us to study the regulatory mechanisms associated with the cell cycle.