Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library, The George Washington University Health Sciences Research Commons Pediatrics Faculty Publications Pediatrics 8-2015 miRTarVis: an interactive visual analysis tool for microRNA-mRNA expression profile data Daekyoung Jung Bohyoung Kim Robert J. Freishtat George Washington University Manta Giri Eric P. Hoffman George Washington University See next page for additional authors Follow this and additional works at: http://hsrc.himmelfarb.gwu.edu/smhs_peds_facpubs Part of the Pediatrics Commons Recommended Citation Jung, D., Kim, B., Freishtat, R.J., Giri, M., Hoffman, E. et al. (2015). miRTarVis: an interactive visual analysis tool for microRNA- mRNA expression profile data. BMC Proceedings, 9(suppl.6): S2. This Journal Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Pediatrics at Health Sciences Research Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Pediatrics Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of Health Sciences Research Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Authors Daekyoung Jung, Bohyoung Kim, Robert J. Freishtat, Manta Giri, Eric P. Hoffman, and Jinwook Seo This journal article is available at Health Sciences Research Commons: http://hsrc.himmelfarb.gwu.edu/smhs_peds_facpubs/1294 Jung et al. BMC Proceedings 2015, 9(Suppl 6):S2 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1753-6561/9/S6/S2 RESEARCH Open Access miRTarVis: an interactive visual analysis tool for microRNA-mRNA expression profile data Daekyoung Jung1, Bohyoung Kim2, Robert J Freishtat3,4,5, Mamta Giri4, Eric Hoffman4,5, Jinwook Seo1* From 5th Symposium on Biological Data Visualization Dublin, Ireland. 10-11 July 2015 Abstract Background: MicroRNAs (miRNA) are short nucleotides that down-regulate its target genes. Various miRNA target prediction algorithms have used sequence complementarity between miRNA and its targets. Recently, other algorithms tried to improve sequence-based miRNA target prediction by exploiting miRNA-mRNA expression profile data. Some web-based tools are also introduced to help researchers predict targets of miRNAs from miRNA-mRNA expression profile data. A demand for a miRNA-mRNA visual analysis tool that features novel miRNA prediction algorithms and more interactive visualization techniques exists. Results: We designed and implemented miRTarVis, which is an interactive visual analysis tool that predicts targets of miRNAs from miRNA-mRNA expression profile data and visualizes the resulting miRNA-target interaction network. miRTarVis has intuitive interface design in accordance with the analysis procedure of load, filter, predict, and visualize. It predicts targets of miRNA by adopting Bayesian inference and MINE analyses, as well as conventional correlation and mutual information analyses. It visualizes a resulting miRNA-mRNA network in an interactive Treemap, as well as a conventional node-link diagram. miRTarVis is available at http://hcil.snu.ac.kr/~rati/ miRTarVis/index.html. Conclusions: We reported findings from miRNA-mRNA expression profile data of asthma patients using miRTarVis in a case study. miRTarVis helps to predict and understand targets of miRNA from miRNA-mRNA expression profile data. Background regulation of target mRNAs through either degradation of All organisms use selective gene transcription of mRNAs the target mRNA or inhibition of protein translation [1]. to carry out biological functions. Increasingly, it is recog- The specific mRNA targets for any specific miRNA can nized that regulatory RNAs (microRNA (miRNA)), long be derived bioinformatically through miRNA-mRNA non-coding RNA (lnRNA) play key roles in regulating the sequence alignment and evolutionary conservation of the stability and translation of existing pools of mRNAs in any target mRNA sequence. For example, miRNA target pre- cell. Thus, understanding the regulation of the genome diction algorithms such as TargetScan [2] or miRanda [3] requires the integration of mRNA, as well as the regula- predict targets of miRNAs. The potential interactions tory RNAs targeting and regulating those mRNAs. Of the between any miRNA-mRNA pair require experimental regulatory RNAs, miRNAs are the best characterized and validation, typically through reporter constructs. studied. MiRNAs are short highly processed oligonucleo- Recent prediction algorithms used miRNA-mRNA tides (approx. 22 nt) that carry out post-transcriptional expression profile data. Microarray method has been pre- valent before deep sequencing method becomes popular recently for miRNA-mRNA expression profiling. As deep sequencing methods become widespread, whole genome * Correspondence: [email protected] 1Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National miRNA-mRNA expression profile data become widely University, 1, Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul, South Korea available. Accordingly, some algorithms exploited Full list of author information is available at the end of the article © 2015 Jung et al. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/ zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. Jung et al. BMC Proceedings 2015, 9(Suppl 6):S2 Page 2 of 16 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1753-6561/9/S6/S2 miRNA-mRNA expression profile data to search for tar- region of the miRNA and 3’ UTR of the mRNA. Some gets of miRNAs. Bioinformaticians also introduced web- target prediction algorithms predicted targets of miR- based tools [4-6] to integrate miRNA-mRNA expression NAs using sequence-based rules. profile data with sequence-based miRNA target predic- TargetScan [2] predicts targets of miRNAs by searching tion algorithms. conserved 8mer or 7mer sites that match the seed region However, those tools are limited in supporting rich of each miRNA. It provides a web service that gives a list exploratory analysis of miRNA-mRNA expression profile of targets for a given miRNA (http://www.targetscan.org). data. For example, enabling dynamic queries and provid- The website has simple forms through which users can ing relevant biological information on demand in the submit queries (Figure 1). For a given miRNA, the web- visualizations are among the much-expected features. We site returns a list of predicted target genes of the miRNA believe that more work is required in visualization and in a text table. It also shows how a miRNA and its target interaction design of visual analysis tools for miRNA- mRNA are aligned to each other. mRNA expression profile data. Given that both miRNA microRNA.org [9] searchesfortargetsofamiRNAby and mRNA expression datasets are multidimensional, using the miRanda algorithm [3]. It uses a weighted com- searching for mRNA targets requires integrative analysis plementary sequence score between a miRNA and a of the two heterogeneous multidimensional datasets. To mRNA, giving a higher score for complementarity in a obtain more improved accuracy of such integrative multi- miRNA seed region and a lower score for complementar- dimensional data analysis, interactive visual analysis tools ity in other regions. As a result, it predicts those mRNAs for miRNA-mRNA expression profile data should help that match not only in the 5’ end seed region of a specific researchers: miRNA but also in the 3’ end of a miRNA as a possible target of the miRNA. The microRNA.org web service • predict miRNA-target interactions by integrating provides a list of predicted targets sorted by the mirSVR miRNA-mRNA expression profile datasets and score [10] for a given miRNA and shows alignment • understand the structure of miRNA-mRNA inter- between a miRNA and its targets. action network. Both TargetScan and microRNA.org provide web ser- vices that give back a list of predicted targets for a given We developed miRTarVis, an interactive visual analysis miRNA. However, their interfaces take only one miRNA tool that predicts targets of miRNAs from miRNA-mRNA at a time, and thus, it is difficult to query multiple miR- expression profile data and visualizes miRNA-target inter- NAs at once, which in turn makes it difficult to study action network that is derived from the prediction. Based interactions among many miRNA-mRNA pairs. It is also on observations and interviews, we first defined a common not straightforward to integrate the prediction result of analysis pipeline for miRNA-mRNA expression profile TargetScan or microRNA.org with miRNA-mRNA expres- data, and then we designed the interface of miRTarVis sion profile data. A general analysis procedure for miRNA- based on the analysis pipeline. miRTarVis provides predic- mRNA expression profile data is to find some significant tion algorithms that are based on both sequence and (e.g., differentially expressed) miRNAs and mRNAs from expression profile data. miRTarVis is the first visual analy- miRNA-mRNA expression profile data and search for sis tool that applies GenMiR++ [7], a Bayesian inference miRNA-target interactions among them based on a pre- model, and MINE (Maximal Information-based Nonpara- diction algorithm. However, the web interfaces of metric Exploration) analysis [8], a new technique that sequence-based prediction algorithms are not suitable for finds highly associated pairs from multidimensional data, integrating miRNA-mRNA expression profile
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