Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c81809) has announced the addition of "Reverse Engineering Biological Networks to their offering.
Computational biologists are striving to "reverse engineer" the underlying networks of interactions between the molecules in the cell. This volume and the conference it reports on attempt a systematic evaluation of reverse engineering methods. The DREAM project brings together a diverse group of researchers to clarify potentials and limitations of the enterprise of reverse engineering cellular networks. An important aspiration of the project is to compare the effectiveness of different methods in reverse engineering biological networks.
Evaluating this requires a "gold standard" network for which at least the true topology of connections is known. Many participants, especially the computational biologists, believe that synthetic networks are good candidates for this purpose because, at least for now, only they can be described with certainty. Experimental biologists, however, worry that unless the project addresses real biological networks, it could evolve into a mathematical exercise with little impact on biology. These and other ideas are discussed.
Contents:
Preface: Gustavo Stolovitzky
Part I: Community Efforts for Pathway Inference:
1. Dialogue on Reverse Engineering Assessment and Methods: the DREAM of High Throughput Pathway Inference: Gustavo Stolovitzky, Don Monroe, Andrea Califano
2. ENFIN - A Network to Enhance Integrative Systems Biology: Pascal Kahlem and Ewan Birney
Part II: Overview of Reverse Engineering Methods: Experiment and Theory:
3. Reconstructing Signal Transduction Pathways: Challenges and Opportunities: Arnold J. Levine, Wenwei Hu, Zhaohui Feng and German Gil
4. Theory and Limitations of Genetic Network Inference from Microarray Data: Adam A. Margolin and Andrea Califano
Part III: Establishing In-Silico and Experimental Gold Standards and Performance Metrics for Reverse Engineering:
5. Comparison of Reverse Engineering Methods Using an In-Silico Network: Diogo Camacho, Paola Vera Licona, Pedro Mendes and Reinhard Laubenbacher
6. Benchmarking of Dynamic Bayesian Networks From Stochastic Time-Series Data: Lawrence A. David and Chris H. Wiggins
7. Reconstruction of Metabolic Networks from High-throughput Metabolite Profiling Data: In-Silico Analysis of Red Blood Cell Metabolism: Ilya Nemenman, G. Sean Escola, William S. Hlavacek, Pat J. Unkefer,Clifford J. Unkefer and Michael E. Wall
8. The Gap Gene System of Drosophila Melanogaster: Model-fitting and Validation: Theodore J. Perkins
Part IV: Theoretical Analyses of Reverse Engineering Algorithms:
9. Algorithmic Issues in Reverse Engineering of Protein and Gene Networks via the Modular Response Analysis Method: Piotr Berman, Bhaskar DasGupta, and Eduardo Sontag
10. Data Requirements of Reverse-engineering Algorithms: Winfried Just
Part V: Some Reverse Engineering Algorithms:
11. Improving Protein-Protein Interaction Prediction based on Phylogenetic Information using Least-Squares SVM: Roger A. Craig and Li Liao
12. Reverse-Engineering of Dynamic Networks: Brandy Stigler, Abdul Jarrah, Mike Stillman and Reinhard Laubenbacher
13. Learning Regulatory Programs that Accurately Predict Differential Expression with MEDUSA: Anshul Kundaje, Steve Lianoglou, Xuejing Li, David Quigle, Marta Arias, Chris H. Wiggins, Li Zhang and Christina Leslie
Part VI: Reverse Engineering of Parameters in Quantitative Models:
14. Extracting Falsifiable Predictions from Sloppy Models: Ryan N. Gutenkunst, Fergal P. Casey, Joshua J. Waterfall, Christopher R. Myers and James P. Sethna
15. Dynamic Pathway Modeling: Feasibility Analysis and Optimal Experimental Design: Thomas Maiwald, Clemens Kreutz, Andrea C. Pfeifer, Sebastian Bohl, Ursula Klingmüller and Jens Timmer
16. Sensitivity Analysis of Computational Model of the IKK-NF-?B-I?B?-A20 Signal Transduction Network: Jaewook Joo, Steve Plimpton, Shawn Martin, Laura Swiler and Jean-Loup Faulon
Part VII: Integration of Prior Information in Reverse Engineering Algorithms:
17. A Framework for Elucidating Regulatory Networks Based on Prior Information and Expression Data: Olivier Gevaert, Steven Van Vooren and Bart De Moor
18. CellFrame: A Data Structure for Abstraction of Cell Biology Experiments and Construction of Perturbation Networks: Yunchen Gong and Zhaolei Zhang
19. Alternative Pathway Approach for Automating Analysis and Validation of Cell Perturbation Networks and Design of Perturbation Experiments: Yunchen Gong and Zhaolei Zhang
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