CeTF: an R/Bioconductor package for transcription factor co-expression networks using regulatory impact factors (RIF) and partial correlation and information (PCIT) analysis.
2021
Finding meaningful gene-gene interaction and the main Transcription Factors (TFs) in co-expression networks is one of the most important challenges in gene expression data mining. Here, we developed the R package “CeTF” that integrates the Partial Correlation with Information Theory (PCIT) and Regulatory Impact Factors (RIF) algorithms applied to gene expression data from microarray, RNA-seq, or single-cell RNA-seq platforms. This approach allows identifying the transcription factors most likely to regulate a given network in different biological systems — for example, regulation of gene pathways in tumor stromal cells and tumor cells of the same tumor. This pipeline can be easily integrated into the high-throughput analysis. To demonstrate the CeTF package application, we analyzed gastric cancer RNA-seq data obtained from TCGA (The Cancer Genome Atlas) and found the HOXB3 gene as the second most relevant TFs with a high regulatory impact (TFs-HRi) regulating gene pathways in the cell cycle. This preliminary finding shows the potential of CeTF to list master regulators of gene networks. CeTF was designed as a user-friendly tool that provides many highly automated functions without requiring the user to perform many complicated processes. It is available on Bioconductor (
http://bioconductor.org/packages/CeTF
) and GitHub (
http://github.com/cbiagii/CeTF
).
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