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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics, 6(35), p. 1351-1359

DOI: 10.1109/tsmcb.2005.855590

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Modeling Gene Expression Networks Using Fuzzy Logic

Journal article published in 2005 by Pan Du, Eve Syrkin Wurtele ORCID, Jian Gong, E. SyrkinWurtele, Julie A. Dickerson
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Abstract

Gene regulatory networks model regulation in living organisms. Fuzzy logic can effectively model gene regulation and interaction to accurately reflect the underlying biology. A new multiscale fuzzy clustering method allows genes to interact between regulatory pathways and across different conditions at different levels of detail. Fuzzy cluster centers can be used to quickly discover causal relationships between groups of coregulated genes. Fuzzy measures weight expert knowledge and help quantify uncertainty about the functions of genes using annotations and the gene ontology database to confirm some of the interactions. The method is illustrated using gene expression data from an experiment on carbohydrate metabolism in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Key gene regulatory relationships were evaluated using information from the gene ontology database. A new regulatory relationship concerning trehalose regulation of carbohydrate metabolism was also discovered in the extracted network.