Exploring dependencies between yeast stress genes and their regulators

Abstract

An environmental stress response gene should, by definition, have common properties in its behavior across different stress treatments. We search for such common properties by models that maximize common variation, and explore potential regulators of the stress response by further maximizing mutual information with transcription factor binding data. A computationally tractable combination of generalized canonical correlations and clustering that searches for dependencies is proposed and shown to find promising sets of genes and their potential regulators. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2004.