corto: Inference of Gene Regulatory Networks

We present 'corto' (Correlation Tool), a simple package to infer gene regulatory networks using DPI (Data Processing Inequality) and bootstrapping to recover edges. An initial step is performed to calculate all significant edges between a list of source nodes (centroids) and target genes. Then all triplets containing two centroids and one target are tested in a DPI step which removes edges. A bootstrapping process then calculates the robustness of the network, eventually re-adding edges previously removed by DPI. The package implements a similar pipeline as ARACNe-AP (Algorithm for the Reconstruction of Accurate Cellular Networks with Adaptive Partitioning) by Giorgi (2016) <doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btw216>) with optimizations to run outside a computing cluster (most notably correlation to infer feature dependencies instead of Mutual Information).

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