Estimating gene regulatory networks with pandaR

PANDA (Passing Attributes between Networks for Data Assimilation) is a gene regulatory network inference method that begins with a model of transcription factor–target gene interactions and uses message passing to update the network model given available transcriptomic and protein–protein interaction data. PANDA is used to estimate networks for each experimental group and the network models are then compared between groups to explore transcriptional processes that distinguish the groups. We present pandaR (bioconductor.org/packages/pandaR), a Bioconductor package that implements PANDA and provides a framework for exploratory data analysis on gene regulatory networks. Availability and Implementation: PandaR is provided as a Bioconductor R Package and is available at bioconductor.org/packages/pandaR.