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. 2022 Mar 22;13:854752. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2022.854752

TABLE 2.

Low-level: Regression/Association-based unsupervised integration methods.

Approach Method Macro category* Author Objective Omics data** Software***
Sequential Analysis • CNAMet MS-SA Louhimo and Hautaniemi, (2011) Biomarker-prediction CNV, DM, GE CNAmet (http://csbi.ltdk.helsinki.fi/CNAmet )
• MEMo (Mutual Exclusivity Modules) MS-SA Ciriello et al. (2012) Module-discovery CNA, GE • JAVA code (http://cbio.mskcc.org/memo)
• iPAC (in-trans Process Associated and cis-Correlated) MS-SA Aure et al. (2013) Biomarker-prediction CNV, GE -
CCA & CIA • Sparse MCCA (Sparse Multiple Canonical Correlation Analysis) DatE Witten and Tibshirani, (2009) Disease insight, Hotspot-detection GE, CNV PMA (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/PMA/index.html)
• BCCA (Bayesian Canonical Correlation Analysis) DatE Klami et al. (2013) Disease insight Any Omics CCAGFA (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/CCAGFA/index.html)
• MCIA (Multiple Co-Inertia Analysis) DatE Meng et al. (2014) Disease-subtyping, Biomarker-prediction GE, PE omicade4 (https://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/omicade4.html)
ade4 (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ade4/index.html)
• sMCIA (sparse Multiple Co-Inertia Analysis) DatE Min and Long, (2020) Biomarker-prediction Any Omics pmCIA (https://www.med.upenn.edu/long-lab/software.html)
Factor Analysis • Joint Bayesian Factor DatE Ray et al. (2014) Biomarker-prediction CNV, DM, GE • Matlab code (https://sites.google.com/site/jointgenomics/)
• MOFA (Multi-Omics Factor Analysis) DatE Argelaguet et al. (2018) Biomarker-prediction Any Omics MOFAtools
(https://github.com/bioFAM/MOFA)
• BayRel (Bayesian Relational learning) DatE Hajiramezanali et al. (2020) Biomarker-prediction Any Omics • TensorFlow (https://github.com/ehsanhajiramezanali/BayReL)

*Macro categories include (A) Multi-step and Sequential Analysis (MS-SA), (B) Data-ensemble (DatE), (C) Model-ensemble (ModE). ** CNV: copy number variation, DM: DNA methylation, GE: gene expression, PE: Protein expression. ***R packages, unless otherwise stated.