A Study of Particle Swarm Optimization in Gene Regulatory Networks Inference

Author(s):  
Rui Xu ◽  
Ganesh Venayagamoorthy ◽  
Donald C. Wunsch



2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (04) ◽  
pp. 1950023 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luowen Liu ◽  
Jing Liu

Inferring gene regulatory networks (GRNs) is vital to understand the complex cellular processes and reveal the regulatory mechanisms among genes. Although various methods have been developed, more accurate algorithms which can control the sparseness of GRNs still need to be developed. In this work, we model GRNs by fuzzy cognitive maps (FCMs), and a node in an FCM means a gene. Then, a new sparse and decomposed particle swarm optimization, termed as SDPSOFCM-GRN, is proposed to train FCMs, which employs the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (Lasso) to control the network sparseness with a decomposed strategy. In the experiments, the performance of SDPSOFCM-GRN is validated on synthetic data and the well-known benchmark DREAM3 and DREAM4. The results show that SDPSOFCM-GRN can well control the sparseness of GRNs, and infer directed GRNs with high accuracy and efficiency.



Author(s):  
Sandro Hurtado ◽  
José García-Nieto ◽  
Ismael Navas-Delgado ◽  
Antonio J. Nebro ◽  
José F. Aldana-Montes


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