Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gpb.2018.05.004
Title: TICA: Transcriptional Interaction and Coregulation Analyzer
Authors: Perna, S.
Pinoli, P.
Ceri, S.
Wong, L. 
Keywords: Coregulation
Data-driven analysis
Machine learning
Protein杙rotein interactions
Transcription factors
Issue Date: 2018
Publisher: Beijing Genomics Institute
Citation: Perna, S., Pinoli, P., Ceri, S., Wong, L. (2018). TICA: Transcriptional Interaction and Coregulation Analyzer. Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics 16 (5) : 342-353. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gpb.2018.05.004
Rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Abstract: Transcriptional regulation is critical to cellular processes of all organisms. Regulatory mechanisms often involve more than one transcription factor (TF) from different families, binding together and attaching to the DNA as a single complex. However, only a fraction of the regulatory partners of each TF is currently known. In this paper, we present the Transcriptional Interaction and Coregulation Analyzer (TICA), a novel methodology for predicting heterotypic physical interaction of TFs. TICA employs a data-driven approach to infer interaction phenomena from chromatin immunoprecipitation and sequencing (ChIP-seq) data. Its prediction rules are based on the distribution of minimal distance couples of paired binding sites belonging to different TFs which are located closest to each other in promoter regions. Notably, TICA uses only binding site information from input ChIP-seq experiments, bypassing the need to do motif calling on sequencing data. We present our method and test it on ENCODE ChIP-seq datasets, using three cell lines as reference including HepG2, GM12878, and K562. TICA positive predictions on ENCODE ChIP-seq data are strongly enriched when compared to protein complex (CORUM) and functional interaction (BioGRID) databases. We also compare TICA against both motif/ChIP-seq based methods for physical TF朤F interaction prediction and published literature. Based on our results, TICA offers significant specificity (average 0.902) while maintaining a good recall (average 0.284) with respect to CORUM, providing a novel technique for fast analysis of regulatory effect in cell lines. Furthermore, predictions by TICA are complementary to other methods for TF朤F interaction prediction (in particular, TACO and CENTDIST). Thus, combined application of these prediction tools results in much improved sensitivity in detecting TF朤F interactions compared to TICA alone (sensitivity of 0.526 when combining TICA with TACO and 0.585 when combining with CENTDIST) with little compromise in specificity (specificity 0.760 when combining with TACO and 0.643 with CENTDIST). TICA is publicly available at http://geco.deib.polimi.it/tica/. � 2018 The Authors
Source Title: Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics
URI: https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/214025
ISSN: 16720229
DOI: 10.1016/j.gpb.2018.05.004
Rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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