SIMoNe: Statistical Inference for MOdular NEtworks

Bioinformatics. 2009 Feb 1;25(3):417-8. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btn637. Epub 2008 Dec 10.

Abstract

Summary: The R package SIMoNe (Statistical Inference for MOdular NEtworks) enables inference of gene-regulatory networks based on partial correlation coefficients from microarray experiments. Modelling gene expression data with a Gaussian graphical model (hereafter GGM), the algorithm estimates non-zero entries of the concentration matrix, in a sparse and possibly high-dimensional setting. Its originality lies in the fact that it searches for a latent modular structure to drive the inference procedure through adaptive penalization of the concentration matrix.

Availability: Under the GNU General Public Licence at http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/simone/

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms*
  • Computer Simulation
  • Databases, Genetic
  • Gene Expression Profiling
  • Gene Regulatory Networks*
  • Software*