Classification and Analysis of Regulatory Pathways Using Graph Property, Biochemical and Physicochemical Property, and Functional Property
2011

Classifying Regulatory Pathways Using Graph and Biochemical Properties

Sample size: 146 publication 10 minutes Evidence: moderate

Author Information

Author(s): Huang Tao, Chen Lei, Cai Yu-Dong, Chou Kuo-Chen

Primary Institution: Institute of Systems Biology, Shanghai University

Hypothesis

Given a regulatory pathway system consisting of a set of proteins, can we predict which pathway class it belongs to?

Conclusion

The study developed a method that successfully predicts the class of regulatory pathways with a success rate of 78.8%.

Supporting Evidence

  • The method achieved a success rate of 78.8% in classifying regulatory pathways.
  • Feature extraction included biochemical, physicochemical, and functional properties.
  • Cross-validation was performed using a jackknife test.

Takeaway

The researchers created a way to figure out what type of job a group of proteins does in a cell, and they did a good job at it!

Methodology

The study used a novel approach involving feature extraction from regulatory pathways and applied the minimum redundancy maximum relevance method for classification.

Limitations

The study is preliminary and may require further validation with additional datasets.

Statistical Information

P-Value

0.032588

Statistical Significance

p<0.05

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

10.1371/journal.pone.0025297

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