Tech R and D_Theme1

University Of California, San Diego, La Jolla CA

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Abstract

TRD 1: DIFFERENTIAL NETWORKS ? PROJECT SUMMARY A major limitation of most network mapping and analysis efforts is that they implicitly consider the system under static conditions, while real biological systems are under constant change. The dynamics of these biological systems are a reflection of context specificity (e.g., cell type), responses to environmental perturbations (e.g., chemical perturbations or viral infections), and genetic alterations (e.g., somatic mutations). Ultimately, we must understand how these dynamics affect ? or are affected by ? the underlying physical and genetic networks active at a particular time. Differential analysis of biological systems under multiple conditions (or in multiple systems) allows us to gain fundamental understanding of these biological responses and how biological networks are re-wired in response to perturbations and alterations. In this project, we will develop a series of tools and methodologies for conducting differential analyses of biological networks altered under multiple conditions. We will pursue novel algorithmic methods that allow us to make use of high-throughput, proteomic-level data to recover biological networks under specific biological perturbations. The software tools developed in this project allow researchers to further predict, analyze, and visualize the effects of these perturbations and alterations, while aggregating additional information regarding the known roles of the dynamic interactions and their participants.