基于EFICA的AD微阵列数据基因网络分析

将EFICA(Efficient Variant of Algorithm FastICA)方法与基因网络相结合分析一组阿尔茨海默病(AD)微阵列数据.根据分类结果提取特征基因集并探寻与早期AD相关的基因网络,实验结果表明,EFICA方法比传统的Fastica方法能够获得更好的分类效果.并且通过对基因网络的研究,扩展了EFICA在生物信息学中的应用,为AD疾病的进一步研究提供新思路.     

Visualization of Biomolecular Networks’ Comparison on Cytoscape

Similarities and dissimilarities between biomolecular networks cannot be intuitively recognized even after the development of several comparison algorithms because of the lack of visualization tools. In this paper, an integrated tool kit named Biomolecular Network Match（BNMatch） is designed and developed based on Cytoscape—a popular and open-source tool for analyzing and visualizing networks. BNMatch integrates the comparison of the outputs of algorithms used for processing biomolecular networks and expresses the matching data between them by defining similar vertices and links with similar attributes. Moreover, in order to maintain consistency, their counterparts in other networks change when the nodes and edges in one of the compared networks are changed. It becomes easy for users to analyze similar networks by invoking comparison algorithms and visualizing the matching data between the networks using BNMatch.