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. 2021 Aug 21;19:4884–4895. doi: 10.1016/j.csbj.2021.08.028

Table 1.

Computational biology tools to map Transcriptional Regulatory Networks.

Tools Full names (when available) Links to tool (when available) Approaches and data used References
ARACNe-AP Algorithm for the Reconstruction of Accurate Cellular Networks http://sourceforge.net/projects/aracne-ap Information theory, bulk transcriptomics, tested on single-cell RNA-seq [56], [60]
CLR Context Likelihood of Relatedness Information theory, bulk transcriptomics, tested on single-cell RNA-seq [57]
ANOVerence http://www2.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~kueffner/anova.tar.gz Correlation, bulk transcriptomics [58]
CoExpNetViz http://bioinformatics.psb.ugent.be/webtools/coexpr/ Information theory, bulk transcriptomics [59]
GeneXPress Module Networks algorithm https://pypi.org/project/GeneXpress/#files Regression, bulk transcriptomics [38]
GENIE3 GEne Network Inference with Ensemble of trees https://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/GENIE3.html Regression, bulk transcriptomics, tested on single-cell RNA-seq [39]
GRNBoost Gene Regulatory Networks Boost http://arboreto.readthedocs.io Regression, bulk transcriptomics, tested on single-cell RNA-seq [40]
TIGRESS Trustful Inference of Gene REgulation using Stability Selection http://cbio.ensmp.fr/tigress Regression, bulk transcriptomics [42]
LiPLike Linear Profile Likelihood https://gitlab.com/Gustafsson-lab/liplike Regression, bulk transcriptomics [41]
Banjo Bayesian Network Inference with Java Objects Source code and simulated data are available upon request Bayesian inference, bulk transcriptomics [63]
LeMoNe http://bioinformatics.psb.ugent.be/software Bayesian inference, bulk transcriptomics [64]
TWNs Transcriptome-Wide Networks https://github.com/battle-lab/twn_tsn Bayesian inference, splicing isoforms, bulk transcriptomics [66]
NIR Network Identification by multiple Regression ODEs, bulk transcriptomics [67]
Inferelator freely available upon request ODEs, bulk transcriptomics [68]
GINsim Gene Interaction Network simulation suite http://ginsim.org/ Logical modelling, bulk transcriptomics [70], [71]
GNA Genetic Network Analyzer http://www-helix.inrialpes.fr/gna Piecewise linear equations, bulk transcriptomics [72]
Network Deconvolution Network Deconvolution http://compbio.mit.edu/nd/index.html Network deconvolution, bulk transcriptomics [73]
RegulonDB http://regulondb.ccg.unam.mx TF regulatory information, relational database, bulk transcriptomics [34], [28]
GRAM Genetic Regulatory Modules TF regulatory information, bulk transcriptomics [26]
DISTILLER Data Integration System to Identify Links in Expression Regulation TF regulatory information, bulk transcriptomics [35]
SEREND SEmi-supervised REgulatory Network Discoverer http://sb.cs.cmu.edu/ecoli/ TF regulatory information, logistic regression, bulk transcriptomics [36]
DeMAND Detecting Mechanism of Action by Network Dysregulation Bioconductor package or web based geWorkbench module TF regulatory information, logistic regression, bulk transcriptomics [37]
SIRENE Supervised Inference of REgulatory NEtworks http://projects.cbio.mines-paristech.fr/sirene/ TF regulatory information, SNV classifiers, bulk transcriptomics [33]
DREM Dynamic Regulatory Events Miner http://sb.cs.cmu.edu/drem/ TF regulatory information, HMM based, bulk transcriptomics [32], [29]
Flynet http://compbio.mit.edu/flynet/ Evolutionary conserved sequence motifs integrated with TF binding and chromatin modification data [77]
SCENIC Single-CEll regulatory Network Inference and Clustering https://aertslab.org/#scenic Single-cell RNA-seq, based on GENIE3 and GENEBoost [62]
SCINET Single-Cell Imputation and NETwork construction https://github.com/shmohammadi86/SCINET Single-cell RNA-seq and a reference global interactome [85]
PIDC Partial Information Decomposition and Context Single-cell RNA-seq, information theory, bulk transcriptomics, partial information decomposition [86]
SCNS toolkit Single-Cell Network synthesis http://scns.stemcells.cam.ac.uk/ Single-cell RNA-seq, boolean logical rules [87]
SCODE scRNA-seq performed on differentiating cells by integrating the transformation of linear ODEs and linear regression https://github.com/hmatsu1226/SCODE Single-cell RNA-seq via regulatory dynamics based on ODEs [88]
CSHMM-TF Continuous-State Hidden Markov Models TF https://github.com/jessica1338/CSHMM-TF-for-time-series-scRNA-Seq Single-cell RNA-seq and TF-gene interaction, Continuous-State Hidden Markov Models [89]
MARINa Master Regulator Inference Algorithm http://califano.c2b2.columbia.edu/marina-license Differential expression and protein-protein interactions [93]
GNAT http://mostafavilab.stat.ubc.ca/gnat/ Bulk transcriptomics using hierarchy of tissues, Gaussian Markov Random Fields [95]
CRCmapper Core transcriptional Regulatory Circuitry mapper https://github.com/ViolaineSaint-Andre/CRCmapper Graph theory, enhancer information (H3K27ac or relevant TF ChIP-seq) and optionally expression and/or ATAC-seq data [15]