Authors

C. Angelini; L. Cutillo; D. De Canditiis; M. Mutarelli;M. Pensky

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Abbreviated Journal Title

BMC Bioinformatics

Keywords

GENE-EXPRESSION DATA; BREAST-CANCER CELLS; PROFILES; Biochemical Research Methods; Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology; Mathematical & Computational Biology

Abstract

Background: Gene expression levels in a given cell can be influenced by different factors, namely pharmacological or medical treatments. The response to a given stimulus is usually different for different genes and may depend on time. One of the goals of modern molecular biology is the high-throughput identification of genes associated with a particular treatment or a biological process of interest. From methodological and computational point of view, analyzing high-dimensional time course microarray data requires very specific set of tools which are usually not included in standard software packages. Recently, the authors of this paper developed a fully Bayesian approach which allows one to identify differentially expressed genes in a 'one-sample' time-course microarray experiment, to rank them and to estimate their expression profiles. The method is based on explicit expressions for calculations and, hence, very computationally efficient. Results: The software package BATS (Bayesian Analysis of Time Series) presented here implements the methodology described above. It allows an user to automatically identify and rank differentially expressed genes and to estimate their expression profiles when at least 5-6 time points are available. The package has a user-friendly interface. BATS successfully manages various technical difficulties which arise in time-course microarray experiments, such as a small number of observations, non-uniform sampling intervals and replicated or missing data. Conclusion: BATS is a free user-friendly software for the analysis of both simulated and real microarray time course experiments. The software, the user manual and a brief illustrative example are freely available online at the BATS website: http://www.na.iac.cnr.it/bats

Journal Title

Bmc Bioinformatics

Volume

9

Publication Date

1-1-2008

Document Type

Software Review

Language

English

First Page

13

WOS Identifier

WOS:000260883300001

ISSN

1471-2105

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