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Meta-Analysis of Pathway Enrichment: Combining Independent and Dependent Omics Data Sets

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  • Alexander Kaever
  • Manuel Landesfeind
  • Kirstin Feussner
  • Burkhard Morgenstern
  • Ivo Feussner
  • Peter Meinicke

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A major challenge in current systems biology is the combination and integrative analysis of large data sets obtained from different high-throughput omics platforms, such as mass spectrometry based Metabolomics and Proteomics or DNA microarray or RNA-seq-based Transcriptomics. Especially in the case of non-targeted Metabolomics experiments, where it is often impossible to unambiguously map ion features from mass spectrometry analysis to metabolites, the integration of more reliable omics technologies is highly desirable. A popular method for the knowledge-based interpretation of single data sets is the (Gene) Set Enrichment Analysis. In order to combine the results from different analyses, we introduce a methodical framework for the meta-analysis of p-values obtained from Pathway Enrichment Analysis (Set Enrichment Analysis based on pathways) of multiple dependent or independent data sets from different omics platforms. For dependent data sets, e.g. obtained from the same biological samples, the framework utilizes a covariance estimation procedure based on the nonsignificant pathways in single data set enrichment analysis. The framework is evaluated and applied in the joint analysis of Metabolomics mass spectrometry and Transcriptomics DNA microarray data in the context of plant wounding. In extensive studies of simulated data set dependence, the introduced correlation could be fully reconstructed by means of the covariance estimation based on pathway enrichment. By restricting the range of p-values of pathways considered in the estimation, the overestimation of correlation, which is introduced by the significant pathways, could be reduced. When applying the proposed methods to the real data sets, the meta-analysis was shown not only to be a powerful tool to investigate the correlation between different data sets and summarize the results of multiple analyses but also to distinguish experiment-specific key pathways.

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  • Alexander Kaever & Manuel Landesfeind & Kirstin Feussner & Burkhard Morgenstern & Ivo Feussner & Peter Meinicke, 2014. "Meta-Analysis of Pathway Enrichment: Combining Independent and Dependent Omics Data Sets," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 9(2), pages 1-12, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0089297
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0089297
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