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Therefore, it is important to persistently concentrate on the research of GRN. The determination of the gene\u2013gene relationships from gene expression data is a complex issue. Since it is difficult to efficiently obtain the regularity behind the gene-gene relationship by only relying on biochemical experimental methods, thus various computational methods have been used to construct GRNs, and some achievements have been made. In this paper, we propose a novel method MMFGRN (for \u201cMulti-source Multi-model Fusion for Gene Regulatory Network reconstruction\u201d) to reconstruct the GRN. In order to make full use of the limited datasets and explore the potential regulatory relationships contained in different data types, we construct the MMFGRN model from three perspectives: single time series data model, single steady-data model and time series and steady-data joint model. And, we utilize the weighted fusion strategy to get the final global regulatory link ranking. 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At the same time, the integration strategy proposed in this paper provides a new idea for the reconstruction of the biological network model without prior knowledge, which can help researchers to decipher the elusive mechanism of life.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bib\/bbab166","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,4,9]],"date-time":"2021-04-09T11:28:50Z","timestamp":1617967730000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":24,"title":["MMFGRN: a multi-source multi-model fusion method for gene regulatory network reconstruction"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"22","author":[{"given":"Wenying","family":"He","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Tianjin University, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jijun","family":"Tang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Tianjin University, 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