PMID- 23282018 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20130612 LR - 20211021 IS - 1471-2164 (Electronic) IS - 1471-2164 (Linking) VI - 13 Suppl 7 IP - Suppl 7 DP - 2012 TI - Discovering pathway cross-talks based on functional relations between pathways. PG - S25 LID - 10.1186/1471-2164-13-S7-S25 [doi] AB - BACKGROUND: In biological systems, pathways coordinate or interact with one another to achieve a complex biological process. Studying how they influence each other is essential for understanding the intricacies of a biological system. However, current methods rely on statistical tests to determine pathway relations, and may lose numerous biologically significant relations. RESULTS: This study proposes a method that identifies the pathway relations by measuring the functional relations between pathways based on the Gene Ontology (GO) annotations. This approach identified 4,661 pathway relations among 166 pathways from Pathway Interaction Database (PID). Using 143 pathway interactions from PID as testing data, the function-based approach (FBA) is able to identify 93% of pathway interactions, better than the existing methods based on the shared components and protein-protein interactions. Many well-known pathway cross-talks are only identified by FBA. In addition, the false positive rate of FBA is significantly lower than others via pathway co-expression analysis. CONCLUSIONS: This function-based approach appears to be more sensitive and able to infer more biologically significant and explainable pathway relations. FAU - Hsu, Chia-Lang AU - Hsu CL AD - Institute of Biomedical Informatics, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan. FAU - Yang, Ueng-Cheng AU - Yang UC LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20121213 PL - England TA - BMC Genomics JT - BMC genomics JID - 100965258 RN - 0 (Receptors, Lysosphingolipid) RN - EC 3.6.5.2 (rhoA GTP-Binding Protein) SB - IM MH - *Algorithms MH - Computational Biology MH - Databases, Factual MH - Humans MH - Metabolic Networks and Pathways MH - Protein Interaction Maps MH - Receptors, Lysosphingolipid/metabolism MH - Signal Transduction MH - rhoA GTP-Binding Protein/metabolism PMC - PMC3521217 EDAT- 2013/01/11 06:00 MHDA- 2013/06/13 06:00 PMCR- 2012/12/07 CRDT- 2013/01/04 06:00 PHST- 2013/01/04 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2013/01/11 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2013/06/13 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2012/12/07 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 1471-2164-13-S7-S25 [pii] AID - 10.1186/1471-2164-13-S7-S25 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - BMC Genomics. 2012;13 Suppl 7(Suppl 7):S25. doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-S7-S25. Epub 2012 Dec 13.