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Coexpression network analysis

I have a question related with the most popular frameworks for network construction: WGCNA for weighted networks and igraph package for unweighted networks. What are the advantages or disadvantages of ...
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How to find closely related genes for a specific gene from WGCNA modules?

I have used WGCNA by integrating several datasets which are processed in a similar way. Identified 17 modules, followed by performed pathway analysis with the genes present in those modules. Among all ...
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Running hubCheck utility from inside K8s's Pod

I'm trying to run hubCheck utility* from inside Kubernetes Pod but for some reason I get this Network error: ...
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Can you style network visualizations of directed graphs using NETWULF?

I want to draw directed graphs using networkx, followed by manual tuning of the visualization with the use of NETWOLF. Here is the example of a network. ...
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In Pygraphviz, How can I assign edge colors according to edge weights?

I am now drawing a weighted directed graph using Pygraphviz. The adjacency matrix A of the weighted directed graph is ...
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How to find disease association of disgenet with string db in homo sapiens

I want to work string-db to read the protein-protein interaction from it and I look up disease association from disgenet but the Ids do not seem to match-up and I do not know what to do. for example ...
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Network analysis: confidence score (STRING database) validation

I am working on network analysis of differentially expressed genes, but the problem I am facing is that the gene set is very small (around 16 genes only), so when I'm trying to build an interaction ...
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How can I associate centrality score of genes(vertices) in a GRN with the probabilistic model in terms of cause and effect?

I'm learning to build Bayesian Network Based Modeling of Gene Regulatory Network of Cancerous Cellular Cells. So far, I have learned to form a Bayesian Network based on nature of genes(i.e Functional ...
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STRINGdb: reverse map STRING identifiers to gene names?

Is there a functionality within STRINGdb package or in another environment to reverse map the STRING identifiers to Gene names? For example, the entire STRING network can be downloaded using the ...
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Functional Annotation vs Functional Enrichment--which one should I use for Network Analysis?

I am currently working on a network pharmacology project where I am supposed to find out the possible diseases our drug might have an effect on. I am not a bioinformatics student, so my knowledge in ...
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Metapath2vec on Drug-ADR Heterogeneous Graph

I am new in this field and I am having some problems regarding a new project. I built a graph using Drugbank Data connected to SIDER Adverse Reactions. I used Organ- level Terms to classify the ADRs ...
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Populations genetics and dynamics of bacteria on a Graph

Disclaimer: I'm a physicist and I'm fairly new to Bioinformatics therefore somethings below may not make sense. My purpose: I would like to simulate genetic evolution of bacterial populations, ...
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How to calculate module-trait relationship when trait data is in binary format?

I have a dataset of 50 breast cancer samples. These samples are classified into four subtypes Lum A, Lum B, Her2 and Basal. I have been working with lncRNAs and protein-coding genes. To identify the ...
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Regarding RNA seq data analysis and building coexpression network

I have some questions regarding RNA seq analysis if you can suggest anything it will help me a lot. I am currently normalizing RNA seq data for comparing genes expression within and between samples. ...
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What's the difference between Barycenter Centrality and Closeness Centrality (Freeman)?

What's the difference between Barycenter Centrality and Closeness Centrality (Freeman)? Barycenter scores are calculated as 1 / (total distance from vertex v to all other vertices) in a strongly ...
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Importing a WGCNA co-expression network into a networkX graph in Python

Is there a way to generate a WGCNA co-expression graph in R, and then to import that graph into Python such that I can represent it using a networkX object?
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how to evaluate neural networks

I have made some architectures of neural networks in order to classify proteins in three categories. I have calculated true positive, true negative, false negative, false positive, Mathews, ...
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Identifying mutually **exclusive** gene sets

I am interested in identifying gene pairs (or better: sets of genes) whose expression is mutually exclusive. Ideally, both genes (or gene sets) would be widely expressed but I am also interested in ...
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WGCNA: Problem with selecting soft threshold

I have 25 tumor samples with counts data. Initially, I filtered out low expressed genes and then converted counts to varianceStabilizingTransformation using ...
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Random networks in PPi

I am working with an in silico model to measure the distances between drugs targets and disease proteins of a disease. I would want to compare these distances with the distances of random networks but ...
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Module preservation and hub genes finding

I ran module preservation analysis between two condition and on the basis of preservation z summary i would to go for downstream analysis.So I m interested in looking for hub-genes of those modules ...
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Visually summarizing phylogenetic networks

After having worked with Bayesian phylogenetic tree inference for some time, I am now trying out a method to infer network phylogenies. To get an idea of what it infers, I'd like to find a way of ...
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Proteomics data Vs Transcriptomics data?

I want to use either of Proteomics or Transcriptomics data for integrating it into my kinetic model. Before proceeding, I want to know what are the advantages of using either of them so that I could ...
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How to write the subclusters in file?

I have constructed a gene co-expression network from RNA-seq data. The network file is in edge list format of memory around 1gb which was created by calculating Pearson correlation of each gene pairs ...
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How I debug this code?

I am trying to run CMSclassifier::classifyCMSfunction on my data but I am getting this error ...
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Clustering of gene co-expression network by igraph R package

I have constructed a gene co-expression network from RNA-seq data. The network has more than 10000 nodes and more than 1 million edges. The network file as an edge list format of memory around 1gb ...
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How do I get the adjacency matrix from gene similarity network?

I am exploring application of Graph convolution network on gene similarity network. I am trying to explore genemania.org and https://string-db.org/ Please let me know where can I find the data for my ...
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Kinetics "Master Equation"

In stochastic (probabilistic) models, the evolution of a system over time is calculated using a "Master Equation" which also factors the external and internal noise / perturbations in order ...
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Attractor Landscape Analysis

I have come across a modeling toolbox, ATLANTIS, which is able to determine cell fates in silico based on the input models provided. This MATLAB-based toolbox is built on a method called "Attractor ...
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Retrieving Metabolic networks from WIT Database

How can I get the dataset for all the 43 metabolic networks for this paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/35036627 It looks like the WIT database does not exist anymore.
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Error while loading a big file with Cytoscape

I installed Cytoscape 3.7.1 with java 1.8.0_191 in windows server 2012. I have a 7.4 GB csv file (about 1,500,000 reords) and when I tried to load it into the ...
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Visualize similar interactions in two homologous networks

Background I have two networks with homologous genes from two different species. To identify homologs I performed a functional comparison. One of the species is not well studied while the other one is ...
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How to create a graph of multi column gene dataset?

well, I'm new to Bio. what I'm going to do is create a network/graph of a dataset related to the genes I think. here's the sample of the nodes dataset with CSV format named lung-nodes : and this is ...
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What are fundamentals to work on bioinformatic data analysis ? [closed]

Well, I'm a MSc student in Information Technology Engineering, trying to become more familiar in the Complex networks specially Bioinformatic field to get more knowledge of cancer detection by ...
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Compare two networks of the same genes between two species

I had a set of genes for honey bees. I found the homologues of those genes in the house fly and created a network of the honey bee genes and a network of the homologous fly genes using STRING. I ...
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Comparing between different set of clusters produced from the same network

I have a set of eight gene clusters which I obtained from clustering a network. However, I had to update the genes in the network at a later stage which lead to certain deletions (genes not present in ...
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How to calculate Gene Ontology terms in python

I am testing different Protein-Protein Interaction networks alignment tools. I observed that all alignment tools show some ...
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Check if a set of genes fall more on a specific cluster than other clusters

I have a network which I clustered into 11 smaller clusters. I have a set of genes and I would like to check if statistically significant number of these genes fall on any specific cluster. One method ...
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How to format the Nexus file to create geographical maps with haplotypes in PopArt?

I'm trying to create a map in PopArt that allows me to visualise the distribution of several species. These are my Traits (=species) and GeoTags blocks: ...
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Visualize network (graph) using "line" layout

I want to visualise a network in a way that the nodes are along a line (and the edges are not on that line). I have included a simple example below. Which network visualisation programs (Cytoscape, ...
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Are gene names same across species?

I have a bunch of gene names of Apis mellifera (specifically 194). I used these gene names as an input on STRING database to create a network for Drosophila melanogaster. 54 of those genes were also ...
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Negative scale-free topology

I am trying to build gene co-expression networks with WGCNA by combining in-house and publicly available RNA-seq datasets. I am interested in identifying gene networks associated with different ...
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The slopes of gene networks

I have a gene network that I clustered into 8 parts. I calculated the degree distribution of the clusters using Cytoscape and the slope of the clusters range from $0.7$ to about $1.3$. From ...
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Network comparison of single cells (from sequencing data)

What methods can we use to compare networks (PPI, gene regulatory etc) created from single-cell gene expression (or proteomics) data? There are methods that construct networks by comparing two ...
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Motif Discovery in Bipartite networks using Cytoscape

I am trying to find over-expressed motifs in a bipartite transcription factor gene network.My genes are not very well characterized, so finding functional motifs has been a challenge. I used the motif-...
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Create gene network from list of genes

This has also been posted on biostars I had an initial bipartite transcriptional regulatory network for bees. My idea is to create a similar network for termites so as to check if similar genes are ...
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Program to make a haplotype network for a specific gene

Currently my lab manually uses pop art to make the network after using PHASE to id an individual's alleles. I would like to know how to generate the graph structure (i.e. the links between vertices), ...
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How to read gene regulatory network edge list files?

The following is an excerpt from an edge list file from the Gene Regulatory Database, YeastNet v3 ...
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Locate KEGG/Reactome pathways in user defined network

I am working on big networks of genes. I want to locate KEGG/Reactome pathways in my network. I have already tried cytoKegg and ReactomeFI (Plugins of Cytoscape), they only give me a list of Pathways ...
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How to simulate biological pathways?

I would like to simulate a biological pathway in Matlab, Mathematica or Python. To study the response of the pathway using Control Theory. Is there a standard way to simulate pathways by using ...
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