Measuring semantic similarities by combining gene ontology annotations and gene co-function networks
Abstract
Background: Gene Ontology (GO) has been used widely to study functional relationships between genes. The current semantic similarity measures rely only on GO annotations and GO structure. This limits the power of GO-based similarity because of the limited proportion of genes that are annotated to GO in most organisms. Results: We introduce a novel approach called NETSIM (network-based similarity measure) that incorporates information from gene co-function networks in addition to using the GO structure and annotations. Using metabolic reaction maps of yeast, Arabidopsis, and human, we demonstrate that NETSIM can improve the accuracy of GO term similarities. We also demonstrate that NETSIM works well even for genomes with sparser gene annotation data. We applied NETSIM on large Arabidopsis gene families such as cytochrome P450 monooxygenases to group the members functionally and show that this grouping could facilitate functional characterization of genes in these families. Conclusions: Using NETSIM as an example, we demonstrated that the performance of a semantic similarity measure could be significantly improved after incorporating genome-specific information. NETSIM incorporates both GO annotations and gene co-function network data as a priori knowledge in the model. Therefore, functional similarities of GO terms that are not explicitly encoded in GO but aremore »
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- Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin (China); Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States)
- Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States)
- Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA (United States)
- Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin (China)
- Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1194164
- Grant/Contract Number:
- FG02-91ER20021
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- BMC Bioinformatics
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 16; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 1471-2105
- Publisher:
- BioMed Central
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; co-function network; gene ontology; semantic similarity; gene function annotation
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Peng, Jiajie, Uygun, Sahra, Kim, Taehyong, Wang, Yadong, Rhee, Seung Y., and Chen, Jin. Measuring semantic similarities by combining gene ontology annotations and gene co-function networks. United States: N. p., 2015.
Web. doi:10.1186/s12859-015-0474-7.
Peng, Jiajie, Uygun, Sahra, Kim, Taehyong, Wang, Yadong, Rhee, Seung Y., & Chen, Jin. Measuring semantic similarities by combining gene ontology annotations and gene co-function networks. United States. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-015-0474-7
Peng, Jiajie, Uygun, Sahra, Kim, Taehyong, Wang, Yadong, Rhee, Seung Y., and Chen, Jin. Sat .
"Measuring semantic similarities by combining gene ontology annotations and gene co-function networks". United States. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-015-0474-7. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1194164.
@article{osti_1194164,
title = {Measuring semantic similarities by combining gene ontology annotations and gene co-function networks},
author = {Peng, Jiajie and Uygun, Sahra and Kim, Taehyong and Wang, Yadong and Rhee, Seung Y. and Chen, Jin},
abstractNote = {Background: Gene Ontology (GO) has been used widely to study functional relationships between genes. The current semantic similarity measures rely only on GO annotations and GO structure. This limits the power of GO-based similarity because of the limited proportion of genes that are annotated to GO in most organisms. Results: We introduce a novel approach called NETSIM (network-based similarity measure) that incorporates information from gene co-function networks in addition to using the GO structure and annotations. Using metabolic reaction maps of yeast, Arabidopsis, and human, we demonstrate that NETSIM can improve the accuracy of GO term similarities. We also demonstrate that NETSIM works well even for genomes with sparser gene annotation data. We applied NETSIM on large Arabidopsis gene families such as cytochrome P450 monooxygenases to group the members functionally and show that this grouping could facilitate functional characterization of genes in these families. Conclusions: Using NETSIM as an example, we demonstrated that the performance of a semantic similarity measure could be significantly improved after incorporating genome-specific information. NETSIM incorporates both GO annotations and gene co-function network data as a priori knowledge in the model. Therefore, functional similarities of GO terms that are not explicitly encoded in GO but are relevant in a taxon-specific manner become measurable when GO annotations are limited.},
doi = {10.1186/s12859-015-0474-7},
journal = {BMC Bioinformatics},
number = 1,
volume = 16,
place = {United States},
year = {2015},
month = {2}
}
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Figure 1: An example of GO structure and annotation, gene co-function network, and the functional distance. (A) GO structure and annotation. ta…tj and “root” are GO terms, edges are the ‘is-a’ (solid line) or ‘part-of ’ (dashed line) relations between these terms, and {g1…g13} in boxes are the sets ofmore »
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