Molecular pathway identification using a new L1/2 solver and biological network-constrained model - Liang Yong

Molecular research is moving towards big data epoch. There are various large-scale popular databases abstracted from different biological processes. Integrating such valuable information with the statistical model may shed light on how human cells work from a system-level perspective. In this paper, we propose a novel penalised network-constrained regression model with a new L1/2 solver for integrating gene regulatory networks into an analysis of gene-expression data, where the network is graph Laplacian regularised. Extensive simulation studies showed that our proposed approach outperforms L1 regularisation and old L1/2 regularisation regarding prediction accuracy and predictive stability. We also apply our method to three kinds of cancer data sets. Particularly, our method achieves comparable or higher predictive accuracy than the old solver L1/2 and L1 regularisation approaches, while fewer but …