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New strategies are needed for reliable regulatory module identification.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Results: We present a new approach, namely multilevel support vector regression (ml-SVR), to systematically identify condition-specific regulatory modules. The approach is built upon a multilevel analysis strategy designed for suppressing false positive predictions. With this strategy, a regulatory module becomes ever more significant as more relevant gene sets are formed at finer levels. At each level, a two-stage support vector regression (SVR) method is utilized to help reduce false positive predictions by integrating binding motif information and gene expression data; a significant analysis procedure is followed to assess the significance of each regulatory module. To evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed strategy, we first compared the ml-SVR approach with other existing methods on simulation data and yeast cell cycle data. The resulting performance shows that the ml-SVR approach outperforms other methods in the identification of both regulators and their target genes. We then applied our method to breast cancer cell line data to identify condition-specific regulatory modules associated with estrogen treatment. Experimental results show that our method can identify biologically meaningful regulatory modules related to estrogen signaling and action in breast cancer.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Availability and implementation: The ml-SVR MATLAB package can be downloaded at http:\/\/www.cbil.ece.vt.edu\/software.htm<\/jats:p><jats:p>Contact: \u00a0xuan@vt.edu<\/jats:p><jats:p>Supplementary information: \u00a0Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btq144","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2010,4,8]],"date-time":"2010-04-08T00:47:20Z","timestamp":1270687640000},"page":"1416-1422","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":20,"title":["Multilevel support vector regression analysis to identify condition-specific regulatory networks"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"26","author":[{"given":"Li","family":"Chen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute 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