networkBMA {networkBMA} | R Documentation

## Gene network inference from time series data via BMA.

### Description

Estimates a probabilistic network of regulator-gene pairs from time series data via ScanBMA or iterative BMA.

### Usage

    networkBMA(data, nTimePoints, prior.prob = NULL, known = NULL,
               ordering = "bic1+prior", nvar = NULL, self = TRUE,
               maxreg = NULL,
               control = ScanBMAcontrol(),
               diff0 = TRUE, diff100 = TRUE,
               verbose = FALSE)

### Arguments

`data` | A matrix whose columns correspond to variables or genes and whose rows correspond to the observations at different time points. The row names should be the gene names, to used in conjunction with `prob` and `known` as appropriate.
`nTimePoints` | The number of time points at which expression measurements are available. The number of columns in `data` should be a multiple of `nTimePoints`, which could be greater than 1 if there are replicates.
`prior.prob` | If included as input, either a single positive fraction representing the probability of an regulator-gene pair in the network, or else a matrix in which the (i,j) entry is the estimated prior probability that gene i regulates gene j. The default value is `NULL`, which implies that no prior information will be used in modeling the network.
`known` | An optional 2-column matrix of known (hard-coded) regulatory relationships. The first column gives the name of the regulator, and the second column gives the name of the target gene. The gene names should be consistent with the data.
`ordering` | A character string indicating the ordering to be used for the genes or variables, referring to the options for ordering in function `varord`. The default is option `"bic1+prior"` for `varord`. If a prior is provided, genes with `prob=1` are always included first in modeling regardless of the specified ordering, while genes with `prior = 0` are excluded.
`nvar` | The number of top-ranked (see `ordering`) genes to be considered in the modeling. The default is determined by the length of `ordering` if it is greater than 1, otherwise it is `min(nrow(data),ncol(data)-1)`. The maximum number of genes for which measurements are available is `nrow(data)`. If fastBMA algorithm is choosen, this parameter ignored, nVars in `fastBMAcontrol` used instead
`self` | A logical variable indicating whether or not to allow self edges in modeling. The default is to allow self edges.
`maxreg` | An optional estimate of the maximum number of regulators for any gene in the network. If provided, this is used to help reduce the amount of memory used for the computations.
`control` | A list of control variables affecting the BMA computations. The functions `ScanBMAcontrol` for `optimize="ScanBMA"` and `iBMAcontrolLM` for `optimize="iBMA"` and `fastBMAcontrol` for `optimize="fastBMA"`are provided to faciltate this setting, and the default is `ScanBMAcontrol()`.
`diff0` | A logical variable indicating whether to differentiate between edges with posterior probability of 0. This includes regulators not included from when `nvar` is less than the total number of possible regulators. If `known` is not NULL, then `diff0` must be FALSE. If `fastBMA` algorithm used, then `diff0` must be FALSE.
`diff100` | A logical variable indicating whether to differentiate between edges with posterior probability of 1.0. If `known` is not NULL, then `diff100` must be FALSE. If `fastBMA` algorithm used, then `diff100` must be FALSE.
`verbose` | A logical variable indicating whether or not a detailed information should be output as the computation progresses. The default value is `FALSE`.

### Details

`networkBMA` is intended for time-series data in which there are more variables (gene expression values) than observations (experiments). For each gene, a linear model is fit to the expression data for all genes at a particular time point to predict the expression of a particular gene at the next time point. BMA is used to fit the linear model to identify the candidate regulators (variables) in the model. The inferred network consists of candidate regulators and their corresponding posterior probabilities for each gene.
It is assumed that data is available for all replicates at the same set of time points.

### Value

A network represented as a data frame in which each row corresponds to a directed edge for which the probability is estimated to be nonzero. The first column gives the name of the regulator, the second column gives the name of the regulated gene, and the third column gives the estimated probability for the regulator-gene pair. Rows are ordered by decreasing probability estimate.
The `summary` function gives the number of inferred edges at posterior probabilities 0, .5, .75, .90, .95 and 1.0

### References

K. Lo, A. E. Raftery, K. M. Dombek, J. Zhu, E. E. Schadt, R. E. Bumgarner and K. Y. Yeung (2012), Integrating External Biological Knowledge in the Construction of Regulatory Networks from Time-series Expression Data, BMC Systems Biology, 6:101.

K. Y. Yeung, K. M. Dombek, K. Lo, J. E. Mittler, J. Zhu, E. E. Schadt, R. E. Bumgarner and A. E. Raftery (2011), Construction of regulatory networks using expression time-series data of a genotyped population, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108(48):19436-41.

K. Y. Yeung, A. E. Raftery and C. Fraley (2012), Uncovering regulatory relationships in yeast using `networkBMA`, `networkBMA` Bioconductor package vignette.

L. H. Hong, M. Wu1, A. Lee, W. C. Young, A. E. Raftery and K. Y. Yeung, FastBMA and Transitive Reduction for Gene Network Inference. [in preparation]

### See Also

`summary.networkBMA`, `varord`, `ScanBMAcontrol`, `iBMAcontrolLM`, `contabs`

### Examples

    data(dream4)

    # there are a total of 5 datasets (networks) in the dream4ts10 data
    network <- 1

    nTimePoints <- length(unique(dream4ts10[[network]]$time))

    edges1ts10 <- networkBMA( data = dream4ts10[[network]][,-(1:2)],
                               nTimePoints = nTimePoints, prior.prob = 0.01)

    summary(edges1ts10)

    edges1ts10.fastBMA <- networkBMA(data=dream4ts10[[network]][,-(1:2)], nTimePoints = nTimePoints,
                              control=fastBMAcontrol(optimize <- 4))
    summary(edges1ts10.fastBMA)

[Package networkBMA version 2.20.0 Index]