Instruct: Identify the main category of Biorxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Oncogenetic Network Estimation with Disjunctive Bayesian Networks MotivationCancer is the process of accumulating genetic alterations that confer selective advantages to tumor cells. The order in which aberrations occur is not arbitrary, and inferring the order of events is challenging due to the lack of longitudinal samples from tumors. Moreover, a network model of oncogenesis should capture biological facts such as distinct progression trajectories of cancer subtypes and patterns of mutual exclusivity of alterations in the same pathways. In this paper, we present the Disjunctive Bayesian Network (DBN), a novel oncogenetic model with a phylogenetic interpretation. DBN is expressive enough to capture cancer subtypes trajectories and mutually exclusive relations between alterations from unstratified data.

ResultsIn cases where the number of studied alterations is small (< 30), we provide an efficient dynamic programming implementation of an exact structure learning method that finds a best DBN in the super-exponential search space of networks. In rare cases that the number of alterations is large, we provided an efficient genetic algorithm in our software package, OncoBN. Through numerous synthetic and real data experiments, we show OncoBNs ability in inferring ground truth networks and recovering biologically meaningful progression networks.

AvailabilityOncoBN is implemented in R and is available at https://github.com/phillipnicol/OncoBN.
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The categories of this paper are: genomics
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The categories of this paper are: plant
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The categories of this paper are: bioengineering
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The categories of this paper are: paleontology
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The categories of this paper are: and
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The categories of this paper are: systems
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The categories of this paper are: communication
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The categories of this paper are: molecular
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The categories of this paper are: toxicology
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The categories of this paper are: biophysics
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The categories of this paper are: microbiology
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The categories of this paper are: physiology
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The categories of this paper are: ecology
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The categories of this paper are: synthetic
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The categories of this paper are: developmental
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The categories of this paper are: scientific