Module networks: identifying regulatory modules and their condition-specific regulators from gene expression data. Author Eran Segal, Michael Shapira, Aviv Regev, Dana Pe'er, David Botstein, Daphne Koller, Nir Friedman Publication Year 2003 Type Journal Article Abstract Much of a cell's activity is organized as a network of interacting modules: sets of genes coregulated to respond to different conditions. We present a probabilistic method for identifying regulatory modules from gene expression data. Our procedure identifies modules of coregulated genes, their regulators and the conditions under which regulation occurs, generating testable hypotheses in the form 'regulator X regulates module Y under conditions W'. We applied the method to a Saccharomyces cerevisiae expression data set, showing its ability to identify functionally coherent modules and their correct regulators. We present microarray experiments supporting three novel predictions, suggesting regulatory roles for previously uncharacterized proteins. Keywords Mutation, Models, Genetic, Genes, Regulator, Gene Expression Profiling, Gene Expression Regulation, Fungal, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Algorithms, Models, Statistical, Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis, Databases, Genetic, Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins, Genes, Fungal Journal Nat Genet Volume 34 Issue 2 Pages 166-76 Date Published 06/2003 Alternate Journal Nat. Genet. Google ScholarBibTeXEndNote X3 XML