Abstract
Network analysis provides a powerful framework for the interpretation of data. It uses novel reference network-based metrices for module evolution. These could be used to identify module of highly connected genes showing variation in co-expression network. In this study, a co-expression network-based approach was used for analyzing the genes from microarray data. Our approach consists of a simple but robust rank-based network construction. The publicly available gene expression data of Solanum tuberosum under cold and heat stresses were considered to create and analyze a gene co-expression network. The analysis provide highly co-expressed module of bHLH coding genes based on correlation values. Our approach was to analyze the variation of genes expression, according to the time period of stress through co-expression network approach. As the result, the seed genes were identified showing multiple connections with other genes in the same cluster. Seed genes were found to be vary in different time periods of stress. These analyzed seed genes may be utilized further as marker genes for developing the stress tolerant plant species.
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Abbreviations
- TFs:
-
Transcription factors
- PCC:
-
Pearson correlation coefficient
- bHLH:
-
Basic-helix-loop-helix
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We would like to thank C Robin Buell who have submitted her experiments in GEO database of NCBI and made them freely available to the scientific community. Financial assistance under BTISnet programme of DBT, New Delhi and DST INSPIRE-SRF fellowship (IF Code: IF120740) is gratefully acknowledged.
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Srivastava, S., Sanchita, Singh, G. et al. Analysis of bHLH coding genes using gene co-expression network approach. Mol Biol Rep 43, 677–685 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11033-016-4001-3
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