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Standard transcriptomic analyses consider differentially expressed genes (DEGs) as indicative of disease states so only a few genes would be treated as signals when the effect size is small, such as in brain tissue. For tissue with small effect sizes, if the DEGs do not belong to a pathway known to be involved in the disease, there would be little left in the transcriptome for researchers to follow up with.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>We developed RNA Solutions: Synthesizing Information to Support Transcriptomics (RNASSIST), a new approach to identify hidden signals in transcriptomic data by linking differential expression and co-expression networks using machine learning. We applied our approach to RNA-seq data of post-mortem brains that compared the Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) group with the control group. Many of the candidate genes are not differentially expressed so would likely be ignored by standard transcriptomic analysis pipelines. Through multiple validation strategies, we concluded that these RNASSIST-identified genes likely play a significant role in AUD.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Availability and implementation<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>The RNASSIST algorithm is available at https:\/\/github.com\/netrias\/rnassist and both the software and the data used in RNASSIST are available at https:\/\/figshare.com\/articles\/software\/RNAssist_Software_and_Data\/16617250.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Supplementary information<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btab673","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,9,21]],"date-time":"2021-09-21T19:17:20Z","timestamp":1632251840000},"page":"397-403","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["RNA Solutions: Synthesizing Information to Support Transcriptomics (RNASSIST)"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"38","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5703-0310","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yi-Pei","family":"Chen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Netrias, LLC , Annapolis, MD 21409, USA"}]},{"given":"Laura B","family":"Ferguson","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neuroscience, The Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research, The University of Texas at Austin , Austin, TX 78712, USA"}]},{"given":"Nihal A","family":"Salem","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neuroscience, The Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research, The University of Texas at Austin , Austin, TX 78712, USA"}]},{"given":"George","family":"Zheng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Netrias, LLC , Annapolis, MD 21409, USA"}]},{"given":"R Dayne","family":"Mayfield","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neuroscience, The Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research, The University of Texas at Austin , Austin, TX 78712, USA"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5488-1542","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mohammed","family":"Eslami","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Netrias, LLC , Annapolis, MD 21409, USA"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,9,27]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023020108462781900_btab673-B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1318","DOI":"10.1126\/science.aaz1776","article-title":"The GTEx Consortium atlas of genetic regulatory effects across human tissues","volume":"369","author":"Aguet","year":"2020","journal-title":"Science"},{"volume-title":"The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test: Guidelines for Use in Primary Care","year":"2001","author":"Babor","key":"2023020108462781900_btab673-B2"},{"key":"2023020108462781900_btab673-B3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"P10008","DOI":"10.1088\/1742-5468\/2008\/10\/P10008","article-title":"Fast unfolding of communities in large networks","volume":"2008","author":"Blondel","year":"2008","journal-title":"J. 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