TY - JOUR
T1 - On the performance of de novo pathway enrichment
AU - Batra, Richa
AU - Alcaraz, Nicolas
AU - Gitzhofer, Kevin
AU - Pauling, Josch
AU - Ditzel, Henrik J.
AU - Hellmuth, Marc
AU - Baumbach, Jan
AU - List, Markus
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017, The Author(s).
PY - 2017/12/1
Y1 - 2017/12/1
N2 - De novo pathway enrichment is a powerful approach to discover previously uncharacterized molecular mechanisms in addition to already known pathways. To achieve this, condition-specific functional modules are extracted from large interaction networks. Here, we give an overview of the state of the art and present the first framework for assessing the performance of existing methods. We identified 19 tools and selected seven representative candidates for a comparative analysis with more than 12,000 runs, spanning different biological networks, molecular profiles, and parameters. Our results show that none of the methods consistently outperforms the others. To mitigate this issue for biomedical researchers, we provide guidelines to choose the appropriate tool for a given dataset. Moreover, our framework is the first attempt for a quantitative evaluation of de novo methods, which will allow the bioinformatics community to objectively compare future tools against the state of the art.
AB - De novo pathway enrichment is a powerful approach to discover previously uncharacterized molecular mechanisms in addition to already known pathways. To achieve this, condition-specific functional modules are extracted from large interaction networks. Here, we give an overview of the state of the art and present the first framework for assessing the performance of existing methods. We identified 19 tools and selected seven representative candidates for a comparative analysis with more than 12,000 runs, spanning different biological networks, molecular profiles, and parameters. Our results show that none of the methods consistently outperforms the others. To mitigate this issue for biomedical researchers, we provide guidelines to choose the appropriate tool for a given dataset. Moreover, our framework is the first attempt for a quantitative evaluation of de novo methods, which will allow the bioinformatics community to objectively compare future tools against the state of the art.
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U2 - 10.1038/s41540-017-0007-2
DO - 10.1038/s41540-017-0007-2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85026740092
SN - 2056-7189
VL - 3
JO - npj Systems Biology and Applications
JF - npj Systems Biology and Applications
IS - 1
M1 - 6
ER -