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A network-based integrative approach to prioritize reliable hits from multiple genome-wide RNAi screens in Drosophila
BACKGROUND: The recently developed RNA interference (RNAi) technology has created an unprecedented opportunity which allows the function of individual genes in whole organisms or cell lines to be interrogated at genome-wide scale. However, multiple issues, such as off-target effects or low efficacie...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2697172/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19435510 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-10-220 |
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author | Wang, Li Tu, Zhidong Sun, Fengzhu |
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description | BACKGROUND: The recently developed RNA interference (RNAi) technology has created an unprecedented opportunity which allows the function of individual genes in whole organisms or cell lines to be interrogated at genome-wide scale. However, multiple issues, such as off-target effects or low efficacies in knocking down certain genes, have produced RNAi screening results that are often noisy and that potentially yield both high rates of false positives and false negatives. Therefore, integrating RNAi screening results with other information, such as protein-protein interaction (PPI), may help to address these issues. RESULTS: By analyzing 24 genome-wide RNAi screens interrogating various biological processes in Drosophila, we found that RNAi positive hits were significantly more connected to each other when analyzed within a protein-protein interaction network, as opposed to random cases, for nearly all screens. Based on this finding, we developed a network-based approach to identify false positives (FPs) and false negatives (FNs) in these screening results. This approach relied on a scoring function, which we termed NePhe, to integrate information obtained from both PPI network and RNAi screening results. Using a novel rank-based test, we compared the performance of different NePhe scoring functions and found that diffusion kernel-based methods generally outperformed others, such as direct neighbor-based methods. Using two genome-wide RNAi screens as examples, we validated our approach extensively from multiple aspects. We prioritized hits in the original screens that were more likely to be reproduced by the validation screen and recovered potential FNs whose involvements in the biological process were suggested by previous knowledge and mutant phenotypes. Finally, we demonstrated that the NePhe scoring system helped to biologically interpret RNAi results at the module level. CONCLUSION: By comprehensively analyzing multiple genome-wide RNAi screens, we conclude that network information can be effectively integrated with RNAi results to produce suggestive FPs and FNs, and to bring biological insight to the screening results. |
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spelling | pubmed-26971722009-06-16 A network-based integrative approach to prioritize reliable hits from multiple genome-wide RNAi screens in Drosophila Wang, Li Tu, Zhidong Sun, Fengzhu BMC Genomics Research Article BACKGROUND: The recently developed RNA interference (RNAi) technology has created an unprecedented opportunity which allows the function of individual genes in whole organisms or cell lines to be interrogated at genome-wide scale. However, multiple issues, such as off-target effects or low efficacies in knocking down certain genes, have produced RNAi screening results that are often noisy and that potentially yield both high rates of false positives and false negatives. Therefore, integrating RNAi screening results with other information, such as protein-protein interaction (PPI), may help to address these issues. RESULTS: By analyzing 24 genome-wide RNAi screens interrogating various biological processes in Drosophila, we found that RNAi positive hits were significantly more connected to each other when analyzed within a protein-protein interaction network, as opposed to random cases, for nearly all screens. Based on this finding, we developed a network-based approach to identify false positives (FPs) and false negatives (FNs) in these screening results. This approach relied on a scoring function, which we termed NePhe, to integrate information obtained from both PPI network and RNAi screening results. Using a novel rank-based test, we compared the performance of different NePhe scoring functions and found that diffusion kernel-based methods generally outperformed others, such as direct neighbor-based methods. Using two genome-wide RNAi screens as examples, we validated our approach extensively from multiple aspects. We prioritized hits in the original screens that were more likely to be reproduced by the validation screen and recovered potential FNs whose involvements in the biological process were suggested by previous knowledge and mutant phenotypes. Finally, we demonstrated that the NePhe scoring system helped to biologically interpret RNAi results at the module level. CONCLUSION: By comprehensively analyzing multiple genome-wide RNAi screens, we conclude that network information can be effectively integrated with RNAi results to produce suggestive FPs and FNs, and to bring biological insight to the screening results. BioMed Central 2009-05-12 /pmc/articles/PMC2697172/ /pubmed/19435510 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-10-220 Text en Copyright © 2009 Wang et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Wang, Li Tu, Zhidong Sun, Fengzhu A network-based integrative approach to prioritize reliable hits from multiple genome-wide RNAi screens in Drosophila |
title | A network-based integrative approach to prioritize reliable hits from multiple genome-wide RNAi screens in Drosophila |
title_full | A network-based integrative approach to prioritize reliable hits from multiple genome-wide RNAi screens in Drosophila |
title_fullStr | A network-based integrative approach to prioritize reliable hits from multiple genome-wide RNAi screens in Drosophila |
title_full_unstemmed | A network-based integrative approach to prioritize reliable hits from multiple genome-wide RNAi screens in Drosophila |
title_short | A network-based integrative approach to prioritize reliable hits from multiple genome-wide RNAi screens in Drosophila |
title_sort | network-based integrative approach to prioritize reliable hits from multiple genome-wide rnai screens in drosophila |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2697172/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19435510 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-10-220 |
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