Nature Communications (Apr 2018)

Quantitative assessment of protein activity in orphan tissues and single cells using the metaVIPER algorithm

  • Hongxu Ding,
  • Eugene F. Douglass,
  • Adam M. Sonabend,
  • Angeliki Mela,
  • Sayantan Bose,
  • Christian Gonzalez,
  • Peter D. Canoll,
  • Peter A. Sims,
  • Mariano J. Alvarez,
  • Andrea Califano

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03843-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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VIPER has been successfully used to assess the regulatory activities of proteins from gene expression data, but its dependence on tissue-specific molecular profiles limits its applicability. MetaVIPER, introduced here, enables inference of the protein activities in orphan tissues and single cells.