alkalait/gprege: Gaussian Process Ranking and Estimation of Gene Expression time-series

The gprege package implements the methodology described in Kalaitzis & Lawrence (2011) "A simple approach to ranking differentially expressed gene expression time-courses through Gaussian process regression". The software fits two GPs with the an RBF (+ noise diagonal) kernel on each profile. One GP kernel is initialised wih a short lengthscale hyperparameter, signal variance as the observed variance and a zero noise variance. It is optimised via scaled conjugate gradients (netlab). A second GP has fixed hyperparameters: zero inverse-width, zero signal variance and noise variance as the observed variance. The log-ratio of marginal likelihoods of the two hypotheses acts as a score of differential expression for the profile. Comparison via ROC curves is performed against BATS (Angelini et.al, 2007). A detailed discussion of the ranking approach and dataset used can be found in the paper (http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/12/180).

Getting started

Package details

AuthorAlfredo Kalaitzis <alkalait@gmail.com>
Bioconductor views Bioinformatics DifferentialExpression Microarray Preprocessing TimeCourse
MaintainerAlfredo Kalaitzis <alkalait@gmail.com>
LicenseAGPL-3
Version1.16.1
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Installation Install the latest version of this package by entering the following in R:
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("alkalait/gprege")
alkalait/gprege documentation built on May 10, 2019, 9:18 a.m.