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Identifying genome-wide targets of transcription factors (TFs) provides the basis to discover the involvement of TFs and TF cooperativeness in cellular systems and pathogenesis.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Results: We present the regulatory interaction predictor (RIP), a machine learning approach that inferred 73 923 regulatory interactions (RIs) for 301 human TFs and 11 263 target genes with considerably good quality and 4516 RIs with very high quality. The inference of RIs is independent of any specific condition. Our approach employs support vector machines (SVMs) trained on a set of experimentally proven RIs from a public repository (TRANSFAC). Features of RIs for the learning process are based on a correlation meta-analysis of 4064 gene expression profiles from 76 studies, in silico predictions of transcription factor binding sites (TFBSs) and combinations of these employing knowledge about co-regulation of genes by a common TF (TF-module). The trained SVMs were applied to infer new RIs for a large set of TFs and genes. In a case study, we employed the inferred RIs to analyze an independent microarray dataset. We identified key TFs regulating the transcriptional response upon interferon alpha stimulation of monocytes, most prominently interferon-stimulated gene factor 3 (ISGF3). Furthermore, predicted TF-modules were highly associated to their functionally related pathways.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Conclusion: Descriptors of gene expression, TFBS predictions, experimentally verified binding information and statistical combination of this enabled inferring RIs on a genome-wide scale for human genes with considerably good precision serving as a good basis for expression profiling studies.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Contact: \u00a0r.koenig@dkfz.de<\/jats:p><jats:p>Supplementary information: \u00a0Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btr366","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2011,6,21]],"date-time":"2011-06-21T03:59:35Z","timestamp":1308628775000},"page":"2239-2247","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":13,"title":["RIP: the regulatory interaction predictor\u2014a machine learning-based approach for predicting target genes of transcription factors"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"27","author":[{"given":"Tobias","family":"Bauer","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Theoretical Bioinformatics, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), INF 280, 69120 Heidelberg and 2Department of Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics, Institute of Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology, and Bioquant, INF 267, University of Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany"},{"name":"1 Department of Theoretical Bioinformatics, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), INF 280, 69120 Heidelberg and 2Department of Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics, Institute of Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology, and Bioquant, INF 267, University of Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Roland","family":"Eils","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Theoretical Bioinformatics, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), INF 280, 69120 Heidelberg and 2Department of Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics, Institute of Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology, and Bioquant, INF 267, University of Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany"},{"name":"1 Department of Theoretical Bioinformatics, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), INF 280, 69120 Heidelberg and 2Department of Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics, Institute of Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology, and Bioquant, INF 267, University of Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Rainer","family":"K\u00f6nig","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Theoretical Bioinformatics, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), INF 280, 69120 Heidelberg and 2Department of Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics, Institute of Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology, and Bioquant, INF 267, University of Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany"},{"name":"1 Department of Theoretical Bioinformatics, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), INF 280, 69120 Heidelberg and 2Department of Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics, Institute of Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology, and Bioquant, INF 267, University of Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2011,6,20]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023012511513074900_B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"25","DOI":"10.1038\/75556","article-title":"Gene ontology: tool for the unification of biology. 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