Reverse‐engineering human regulatory networks

Autor: Andrea Califano, Celine Lefebvre, Gabrielle E. Rieckhof
Rok vydání: 2012
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Zdroj: WIREs Systems Biology and Medicine. 4:311-325
ISSN: 1939-005X
1939-5094
Popis: The explosion of genomic, transcriptomic, proteomic, metabolomic, and other omics data is challenging the research community to develop rational models for their organization and interpretation to generate novel biological knowledge. The development and use of gene regulatory networks to mechanistically interpret this data is an important development in molecular biology, usually captured under the banner of systems biology. As a result, the repertoire of methods for the reconstruction of comprehensive and cell-context-specific maps of regulatory interactions, or interactomes, has also exploded in the past few years. In this review, we focus on Network Biology and more specifically on methods for reverse engineering transcriptional, post-transcriptional, and post-translational human interaction networks and show how their interrogation is starting to impact our understanding of cellular pathophysiology and one’s ability to predict cellular phenotypes from genome-wide molecular observations.
Databáze: OpenAIRE