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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Jan 20.
Published in final edited form as: Mol Cell. 2022 Jan 10;82(2):260–273. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2021.12.011

Table 2.

Gene network inference methods

Method Algorithm type Bulk or single cell Directed or undirected Citation Code source
Pearson Correlation correlation both undirected Stuart et al., 2003 various
PIDC partial information decomposition both undirected Chan et al., 2017 https://github.com/Tchanders/
NetworkInference.jl
ARACNE mutual information both undirected Margolin et al., 2006 https://github.com/califano- lab/GPU-ARACNE
GENIE3 decision tree ensembles both directed Huynh-Thu et al., 2010 https://arboreto.readthedocs. io/en/latest/index.html
SCODE ordinary differential equations single cell directed Matsumoto et al., 2017 https://github.com/hmatsu1226/SCODE
SINCERITIES Granger causality single cell directed Papili Gao et al., 2018 https://github.com/CABSEL/SINCERITIES
SINGE Granger causality single cell directed Deshpande et al., 2019 https://github.com/gitter-lab/SINGE
Scribe directed information single cell directed Qiu et al., 2020 https://github.com/cole-trapnell-lab/Scribe
scTenifoldKnk principal components regression and tensor decomposition single cell directed Osorio et al., 2021 https://github.com/cailab- tamu/scTenifoldKnk
CellBox ordinary differential equations bulk proteomics directed Yuan et al., 2021 https://github.com/sanderlab/CellBox

Table containing methods described in this review for or involving gene/protein network inference. These methods use transcriptomics data as input unless otherwise indicated.