BioNAR: an Integrated Biological Network Analysis Package in Bioconductor

Overview

Journal Bioinform Adv

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty Biology

Date 2023 Oct 20

PMID 37860105

Authors

Colin McLean

Anatoly Sorokin

Thomas Ian Simpson

James Douglas Armstrong

Oksana Sorokina

Affiliations

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Abstract

Motivation: Biological function in protein complexes emerges from more than just the sum of their parts: molecules interact in a range of different sub-complexes and transfer signals/information around internal pathways. Modern proteomic techniques are excellent at producing a parts-list for such complexes, but more detailed analysis demands a network approach linking the molecules together and analysing the emergent architectural properties. Methods developed for the analysis of networks in social sciences have proven very useful for splitting biological networks into communities leading to the discovery of sub-complexes enriched with molecules associated with specific diseases or molecular functions that are not apparent from the constituent components alone.

Results: Here, we present the Bioconductor package BioNAR, which supports step-by-step analysis of biological/biomedical networks with the aim of quantifying and ranking each of the network's vertices based on network topology and clustering. Examples demonstrate that while BioNAR is not restricted to proteomic networks, it can predict a protein's impact within multiple complexes, and enables estimation of the co-occurrence of metadata, i.e. diseases and functions across the network, identifying the clusters whose components are likely to share common function and mechanisms.

Availability And Implementation: The package is available from Bioconductor release 3.17: https://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/BioNAR.html.

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