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A Novel Gene Network Inference Algorithm Using Predictive Minimum Description Length Approach, Vijender Chaitankar, Preetam Ghosh, Edward J. Perkins, Ping Gong, Youping Deng, Chaoyang Zhang
A Novel Gene Network Inference Algorithm Using Predictive Minimum Description Length Approach, Vijender Chaitankar, Preetam Ghosh, Edward J. Perkins, Ping Gong, Youping Deng, Chaoyang Zhang
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Background: Reverse engineering of gene regulatory networks using information theory models has received much attention due to its simplicity, low computational cost, and capability of inferring large networks. One of the major problems with information theory models is to determine the threshold which defines the regulatory relationships between genes. The minimum description length (MDL) principle has been implemented to overcome this problem. The description length of the MDL principle is the sum of model length and data encoding length. A user-specified fine tuning parameter is used as control mechanism between model and data encoding, but it is difficult to …