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View ORCID ProfileGenevieve L. Stein-O’Brien, Raman Arora, View ORCID ProfileAedin C. Culhane, View ORCID ProfileAlexander V. Favorov, Lana X. Garmire, View ORCID ProfileCasey S. Greene, View ORCID ProfileLoyal A. Goff, View ORCID ProfileYifeng Li, View ORCID ProfileAloune Ngom, Michael F. Ochs, Yanxun Xu, View ORCID ProfileElana J. Fertig
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/196915
Genevieve L. Stein-O’Brien
1Department of Oncology, Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
2Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
3McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
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Raman Arora
4Department of Computer Science, Institute for Data Intensive Engineering & Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
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Aedin C. Culhane
5Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
6Department of Biostatistics, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA
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Alexander V. Favorov
1Department of Oncology, Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
7Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Moscow, Russia
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Lana X. Garmire
8University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, HI
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Casey S. Greene
9Department of Pharmacology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, PA
10Childhood Cancer Data Lab, Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation, PA
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Loyal A. Goff
2Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
3McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
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Yifeng Li
11Digital Technologies Research Centre, National Research Council Canada
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Aloune Ngom
12School of Computer Science, University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada
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Michael F. Ochs
13Department of Mathematics and Statistics, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ
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Yanxun Xu
14Department of Applied Mathematics & Statistics, Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
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Elana J. Fertig
1Department of Oncology, Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
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Abstract

Omics data contains signal from the molecular, physical, and kinetic inter- and intra-cellular interactions that control biological systems. Matrix factorization techniques can reveal low-dimensional structure from high-dimensional data that reflect these interactions. These techniques can uncover new biological knowledge from diverse high-throughput omics data in topics ranging from pathway discovery to time course analysis. We review exemplary applications of matrix factorization for systems-level analyses. We discuss appropriate application of these methods, their limitations, and focus on analysis of results to facilitate optimal biological interpretation. The inference of biologically relevant features with matrix factorization enables discovery from high-throughput data beyond the limits of current biological knowledge—answering questions from high-dimensional data that we have not yet thought to ask.

  • Glossary

    Amplitude matrix
    The matrix learned from MF that contains molecules in rows and factors in columns. Each column represents the relative contribution of the genes in a factor, which can be used to define a molecular signature for a CBP.
    Complex biological process (CBP)
    The coregulation or coordinated effect of multiple molecular species resulting in one or more phenotypes examples can range from activation of multiple proteins in a single cellular signaling pathway to epistatic regulation of development.
    Computational microdissection
    A computational method to learn the composition of a heterogeneous sample, e.g., the cell types in a tissue sample.
    Independent Component Analysis (ICA)
    A MF technique that learns statistically independent factors.
    Matrix Factorization (MF)
    A technique to approximate a data matrix by the product of two matrices (see Box 1), one of which we call the amplitude matrix and the other the pattern matrix.
    Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF)
    A MF technique for which all elements of the amplitude and pattern matrices are greater than or equal to zero.
    Pattern matrix
    The matrix learned from MF that contains factors in rows and samples in columns. Each row represents the relative contribution of the samples in a factor, which can be used to define the relative activity of CBPs in each sample.
    Principal Component Analysis (PCA)
    A MF technique that learns orthogonal factors ordered by the relative amount of variation of the data that they explain.
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    Enter the matrix: factorization uncovers knowledge from omics Names/Affiliations
    Genevieve L. Stein-O’Brien, Raman Arora, Aedin C. Culhane, Alexander V. Favorov, Lana X. Garmire, Casey S. Greene, Loyal A. Goff, Yifeng Li, Aloune Ngom, Michael F. Ochs, Yanxun Xu, Elana J. Fertig
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    Enter the matrix: factorization uncovers knowledge from omics Names/Affiliations
    Genevieve L. Stein-O’Brien, Raman Arora, Aedin C. Culhane, Alexander V. Favorov, Lana X. Garmire, Casey S. Greene, Loyal A. Goff, Yifeng Li, Aloune Ngom, Michael F. Ochs, Yanxun Xu, Elana J. Fertig
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