Chen Xiaohui, Chen Ming, Ning Kaida
Department of Bioinformatics Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.
Bioinformatics. 2006 Dec 1;22(23):2952-4. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btl491. Epub 2006 Sep 27.
BNArray is a systemized tool developed in R. It facilitates the construction of gene regulatory networks from DNA microarray data by using Bayesian network. Significant sub-modules of regulatory networks with high confidence are reconstructed by using our extended sub-network mining algorithm of directed graphs. BNArray can handle microarray datasets with missing data. To evaluate the statistical features of generated Bayesian networks, re-sampling procedures are utilized to yield collections of candidate 1st-order network sets for mining dense coherent sub-networks.
The R package and the supplementary documentation are available at http://www.cls.zju.edu.cn/binfo/BNArray/.
BNArray是一个用R语言开发的系统化工具。它通过使用贝叶斯网络,促进从DNA微阵列数据构建基因调控网络。利用我们扩展的有向图子网挖掘算法,重建具有高可信度的调控网络的重要子模块。BNArray可以处理存在缺失数据的微阵列数据集。为了评估生成的贝叶斯网络的统计特征,采用重采样程序来生成候选一阶网络集的集合,用于挖掘密集连贯子网。