Exhaustive Signature Algorithm Guy Harari

Outline ISA biclustering algorithm Bimax biclustering algorithm Exhaustive Signature Algorithm Results and future work

ISA algorithm Was developed by Sven Bergmann in 2003. Goal: find genes/conditions having correlated expression. Frequently used, compared and improved. Good results in real data.

ISA - details Input – expression matrix , initial gene set. Compute by normalizing each column. For each condition z-test avg. normalized expression in gene subset against avg. expression in condition. If above a threshold, select the condition. Do the same for resulting condition set. Repeat until convergence of gene set.

ISA - drawbacks Initial gene set should be given. Few biclusters for specific parameter value. Parameter values are hard to optimize. Expression values aren’t normally distributed. Genes might not be independent.

Exhaustive approach Use Bimax algorithm to find seeds. For each seed apply ISA with random parameters. Drop similar seeds while running. Drop similar biclusters from ISA. Observation: applying the algorithm separately for positive and negative values improves results.

Bimax algorithm Input – expression matrix Binarize matrix (1 value for b% highest and lowest values). Goal – find all submatrices which: Contain only 1’s. Are inclusion-maximal. Method: Drop areas in matrix with 0’s only. Recursively apply Bimax on other areas.

Bimax - illustration 1

Bimax - illustration 1

Bimax - illustration 1

Bimax - illustration 1

Bimax - illustration 1

Bimax - drawbacks Information loss due to binarization. Binarization parameter is hard to control. Runtime depends linearly on no. of biclusters. Usually returns millions of biclusters. Poor results on real data.

Exhaustive Signature Algorithm Apply Bimax on the input expression matrix. Keep biclusters that: Do not overlap with other biclusters. Have low p-value w.r.t a bicluster score. Sort resulting biclusters by size. Begin with the largest, apply ISA for each one. Keep new biclusters that do not overlap with previous ones. Stop if more than N biclusters found.

ESA – details Overlaps – use Jaccard index, take the larger. Score – average abs. Pearson correlation between gene pairs. P-value: Randomize input matrix using edge shuffling. Apply ESA on randomized matrix. Keep score distribution of all biclusters found. P-value = right tail of score distribution of resulting biclusters.

ESA – details Observation: anti-correlated genes usually do not pass enrichment tests simultaneously. So apply ESA separately on positive and negative expression values. Also change ISA: For positive run, test: score>threshold For negative run, test: –score>threshold

ESA - experiments Apply the algorithms: SAMBA, Bimax, ISA,ESA and ESANP (negative and positive values separately). Datasets: Gasch 2001 (yeast heat shock) Whitfield 2002 (human cell cycle) Evaluation: GO, TF and KEGG enrichment tests

Results – Yeast, GO

Results – Yeast, TF

Results – Yeast, KEGG

Results – Human, GO

Results – Human, KEGG

Conclusions ESA exploits both Bimax’s power and ISA’s accuracy. ESA avoids ISA’s parameter selection. ESA avoids ISA’s seed generation. ESA reduces #biclusters from Bimax. ESA shows good results on real data.

Future work Test the algorithm on other datasets. Initiate binarization parameter automatically. Evaluate results with other criteria. Avoid bias towards large biclusters.