Patent ID: 7930156
Filing Date: 2011-04-19
Classification: G16B

Abstract:
1. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium that stores therein a computer program for realizing a method of analyzing a gene interaction network, the computer program making a computer execute: setting a threshold for a relevance between one of a plurality of biological events and a respective one of a plurality of gene interactions forming the gene interaction network; detecting gene interactions from among the plurality of gene interactions having a relevance equal to or higher than the threshold; adjusting the threshold to be low when no gene interaction is detected at the detecting; generating partial networks for respective biological events by arranging the detected gene interactions according to the biological events; sorting the partial networks into an analysis subject and a non-analysis subject, based on a degree of overlap of the partial networks with each other; setting a limiting condition to limit any one of number of genes and number of gene interactions; setting a coverage condition for a coverage of analysis subjects; generating a union network by arranging the partial networks for each of the plurality of biological events; calculating a coverage that indicates to what degree the union network is included in the gene interaction network; judging whether the coverage calculated by the calculating satisfies the coverage condition, wherein, the adjusting includes adjusting the threshold to be low when the coverage calculated by the calculating does not satisfy the coverage condition; calculating a degree of similarity in contents between a document in which one of the plurality of biological events is explained and a literature in which one of the plurality of gene interactions is indicated; setting the relevance between the one of the plurality of biological events and the one of the plurality of gene interactions based on the degree of similarity in contents; extracting a partial network that satisfies the limiting condition from among the partial networks generated at the generating; and displaying the partial networks on a display screen.