Quantum
BiD-Informatics
IV
eds. L.
Accardi,
W. Freudenberg
and
M.
Ohya
© 2011
World
Scientific
Publishing
Co.
(pp.
17-28)
STUDY OF TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATORY NETWORK
BASED ON CIS MODULE
DATABASE
SHIZU AKASAKAt, TOMOKO URUSHIBARA,
TOMONORl SUZUKI
AND SATORU MIYAZAKI
Graduate School a/Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokyo University a/Science 2641
Yamazaki, Noda-city, Chiba, 278-8510, Japan
Microarray analysis is a high-throughput method for analyzing expression levels
of
multiple genes, therefore the microarray have been regarded by many investigators as a
powerful method. Treating a huge amount
of
data and judgment
of
differentially
expressed genes require appropriate statistical analysis. When the microarray analysis
suggests there are co-expressed genes under a specific condition, there is high possibility
that the common transcriptional factors (TFs) control them.
It
is also difficult to identify
the TFs involved in co-expression through only biochemical experiments. In view
of
cis-element pattern related
to
co expressed genes might
be
one
of
the solutions to infer
the gene expression mechanism clearly.
So far, we have constructed Cis-Module database in order
to
specify cis-element location
and distribution on genome.
Using this database and rat microarray data, we have
investigated the TFs network related to co-expression
of
genes.
If
we could also extract
the human genes that are orthologous
to
co-expressed gene in rat, it will allow us to
compare their cis-elements and TFs and
to
consider difference
of
gene expression profiles
between rat and human.
It
will
be
very useful
to
find out attention to drug discovery
targeting gene expression mechanism.
1.
Introduction
In 2003, Human Genome Project was finished [1]. And all human genome
sequence data has been determined and mapped genes on
it.
After that, many
researchers have been studying gene expression in detail. That's because they
want
to
find differentially expressed genes from these data for clarifYing the
function
of
genes. However, it is not efficient to test huge number
of
genes
individually so that we analyze gene expression.
Recently, micro array analysis
is
a good method for analyzing expression
levels
of
multiple genes. Treating a huge amount
of
data and judgment
of
differentially expressed genes require appropriate statistical analysis. When the
micro array analysis suggests a set
of
gene expresses under some biological
t Work partially supported by grant 2-4570.5
of
the Swiss National Science Foundation.
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