TANIA DOTTORINI Tania.Dottorini@nottingham.ac.uk
Associate Professor
CluGene: A Bioinformatics Framework for the Identification of Co-Localized, Co-Expressed and Co-Regulated Genes Aimed at the Investigation of Transcriptional Regulatory Networks from High-Throughput Expression Data
Dottorini, Tania; Palladino, Pietro; Senin, Nicola; Persampieri, Tania; Spaccapelo, Roberta; Crisanti, Andrea
Authors
Pietro Palladino
Nicola Senin
Tania Persampieri
Roberta Spaccapelo
Andrea Crisanti
Contributors
Christian
Editor
Abstract
The full understanding of the mechanisms underlying transcriptional regulatory networks requires unravelling of complex causal relationships. Genome high-throughput technologies produce a huge amount of information pertaining gene expression and regulation; however, the complexity of the available data is often overwhelming and tools are needed to extract and organize the relevant information. This work starts from the assumption that the observation of co-occurrent events (in particular co-localization, co-expression and co-regulation) may provide a powerful starting point to begin unravelling transcriptional regulatory networks. Co-expressed genes often imply shared functional pathways; co-expressed and functionally related genes are often co-localized, too; moreover, co-expressed and co-localized genes are also potential targets for co-regulation; finally, co-regulation seems more frequent for genes mapped to proximal chromosome regions. Despite the recognized importance of analysing co-occurrent events, no bioinformatics solution allowing the simultaneous analysis of co-expression, co-localization and co-regulation is currently available. Our work resulted in developing and valuating CluGene, a software providing tools to analyze multiple types of co-occurrences within a single interactive environment allowing the interactive investigation of combined co-expression, co-localization and co-regulation of genes. The use of CluGene will enhance the power of testing hypothesis and experimental approaches aimed at unravelling transcriptional regulatory networks. The software is freely available at
Citation
Dottorini, T., Palladino, P., Senin, N., Persampieri, T., Spaccapelo, R., & Crisanti, A. (2013). CluGene: A Bioinformatics Framework for the Identification of Co-Localized, Co-Expressed and Co-Regulated Genes Aimed at the Investigation of Transcriptional Regulatory Networks from High-Throughput Expression Data. PLoS ONE, 8(6), doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0066196
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | May 5, 2012 |
Online Publication Date | Jun 18, 2013 |
Publication Date | Jun 18, 2013 |
Deposit Date | Feb 20, 2019 |
Publicly Available Date | Mar 7, 2019 |
Journal | PLoS ONE |
Publisher | Public Library of Science |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 8 |
Issue | 6 |
Article Number | e66196 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0066196 |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1570900 |
Publisher URL | https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0066196 |
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