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- Title
A systems-biology approach to modular genetic complexity.
- Authors
Carter, Gregory W; Rush, Cynthia G; Uygun, Filiz; Sakhanenko, Nikita A; Galas, David J; Galitski, Timothy
- Abstract
Multiple high-throughput genetic interaction studies have provided substantial evidence of modularity in genetic interaction networks. However, the correspondence between these network modules and specific pathways of information flow is often ambiguous. Genetic interaction and molecular interaction analyses have not generated large-scale maps comprising multiple clearly delineated linear pathways. We seek to clarify the situation by discerning the difference between genetic modules and classical pathways. We review a method to optimize the discovery of biologically meaningful genetic modules based on a previously described context-dependent information measure to obtain maximally informative networks. We compare the results of this method with the established measures of network clustering and find that it balances global and local clustering information in networks. We further discuss the consequences for genetic interaction networks and propose a framework for the analysis of genetic modularity.
- Publication
Chaos (Woodbury, N.Y.), 2010, Vol 20, Issue 2, p026102
- ISSN
1089-7682
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1063/1.3455183