Abstract:
BACKGROUND:The improvements of high throughput technologies have produced large amounts of multi-omics experiments datasets. Initial analysis of these data has revealed many concurrent gene alterations within single dataset or/and among multiple omics datasets. Although powerful bioinformatics pipelines have been developed to store, manipulate and analyze these data, few explicitly find and assess the recurrent co-occurring aberrations across multiple regulation levels. RESULTS:Here, we introduced a novel R-package (called OmicsARules) to identify the concerted changes among genes under association rules mining framework. OmicsARules embedded a new rule-interestingness measure, Lamda3, to evaluate the associated pattern and prioritize the most biologically meaningful gene associations. As demonstrated with DNA methlylation and RNA-seq datasets from breast invasive carcinoma (BRCA), esophageal carcinoma (ESCA) and lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD), Lamda3 achieved better biological significance over other rule-ranking measures. Furthermore, OmicsARules can illustrate the mechanistic connections between methlylation and transcription, based on combined omics dataset. OmicsARules is available as a free and open-source R package. CONCLUSIONS:OmicsARules searches for concurrent patterns among frequently altered genes, thus provides a new dimension for exploring single or multiple omics data across sequencing platforms.
journal_name
BMC Bioinformaticsjournal_title
BMC bioinformaticsauthors
Chen D,Zhang F,Zhao Q,Xu Jdoi
10.1186/s12859-019-3171-0subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2019-11-08 00:00:00pages
554issue
1issn
1471-2105pii
10.1186/s12859-019-3171-0journal_volume
20pub_type
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