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Identification of gene interactions associated with disease from gene expression data using synergy networks

John Watkinson1 email, Xiaodong Wang1 email, Tian Zheng2 email and Dimitris Anastassiou1 email

1Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics and Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, 500 West 120th Street, New York, NY 10027, USA

2Department of Statistics, Columbia University, 1255 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027, USA

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BMC Systems Biology 2008, 2:10doi:10.1186/1752-0509-2-10

Published: 30 January 2008

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Example with simulated dataset. Comparison between using synergy networks and traditional network inference techniques on a simulated dataset.

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Synergy values in validation dataset. Results of applying the synergy network algorithm on an independent dataset used for validation.

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Software for evaluating entropy and synergy. MATLAB scripts are provided for evaluating conditional entropy and synergy from gene expression data and a corresponding phenotype indicator.

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