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Assessment of network module identification across complex diseases

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submitted on 2024-05-23, 10:06 and posted on 2024-05-23, 10:07 authored by Sarvenaz Choobdar, The DREAM Module Identification Challenge Consortium, Mehmet E. Ahsen, Jake Crawford, Mattia Tomasoni, Tao Fang, David Lamparter, Junyuan Lin, Benjamin Hescott, Xiaozhe Hu, Johnathan Mercer, Ted Natoli, Rajiv Narayan, Aravind Subramanian, Jitao D. Zhang, Gustavo Stolovitzky, Zoltán Kutalik, Kasper Lage, Donna K. Slonim, Julio Saez-Rodriguez, Lenore J. Cowen, Sven Bergmann, Daniel Marbach

Many bioinformatics methods have been proposed for reducing the complexity of large gene or protein networks into relevant subnetworks or modules. Yet, how such methods compare to each other in terms of their ability to identify disease-relevant modules in different types of network remains poorly understood. We launched the ‘Disease Module Identification DREAM Challenge’, an open competition to comprehensively assess module identification methods across diverse protein–protein interaction, signaling, gene co-expression, homology and cancer-gene networks. Predicted network modules were tested for association with complex traits and diseases using a unique collection of 180 genome-wide association studies. Our robust assessment of 75 module identification methods reveals top-performing algorithms, which recover complementary trait-associated modules. We find that most of these modules correspond to core disease-relevant pathways, which often comprise therapeutic targets. This community challenge establishes biologically interpretable benchmarks, tools and guidelines for molecular network analysis to study human disease biology.

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Published in: Nature Methods
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
See article on publisher's website: https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41592-019-0509-5

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Open Access funding provided by the Qatar National Library.

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  • English

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Springer Nature

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  • 2019

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This Item is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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  • Hamad Bin Khalifa University
  • Qatar Computing Research Institute - HBKU

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