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MODalyseR-a novel software for inference of disease module hub regulators identified a putative multiple sclerosis
Hendrik A de Weerd1,2, Julia Åkesson1,2, Dimitri Guala3,4
1School of Bioscience, Systems Biology Research Center, University of Skövde, Skövde 541 45, Sweden.
Motivation:
Network-based disease modules have proven to be a powerful concept for extracting knowledge about disease mechanisms, predicting for example disease risk factors and side effects of treatments. Plenty of tools exist for the purpose of module inference, but less effort has been put on simultaneously utilizing knowledge about regulatory mechanisms for predicting disease module hub regulators.
Results:
We developed MODalyseR, a novel software for identifying disease module regulators and reducing modules to the most disease-associated genes. This pipeline integrates and extends previously published software packages MODifieR and ComHub and hereby provides a user-friendly network medicine framework combining the concepts of disease modules and hub regulators for precise disease gene identification from transcriptomics data. To demonstrate the usability of the tool, we designed a case study for multiple sclerosis that revealed IKZF1 as a promising hub regulator, which was supported by independent ChIP-seq data.
Availability And Implementation:
MODalyseR is available as a Docker image at https://hub.docker.com/r/ddeweerd/modalyser with user guide and installation instructions found at https://gustafsson-lab.gitlab.io/MODalyseR/.
Supplementary Information:
Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics Advances online.
