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Therefore, the system-level identification of feedback circuits using time-series measurements is critical to understand the underlying regulatory mechanism of synchronized bursting behaviors.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Results: Multi-Step Granger Causality Method (MSGCM) was developed to identify feedback loops embedded in biological networks using time-series experimental measurements. Based on multivariate time-series analysis, MSGCM used a modified Wald test to infer the existence of multi-step Granger causality between a pair of network nodes. A significant bi-directional multi-step Granger causality between two nodes indicated the existence of a feedback loop. This new identification method resolved the drawback of the previous non-causal impulse response component method which was only applicable to networks containing no co-regulatory forward path. MSGCM also significantly improved the ratio of correct identification of feedback loops. In this study, the MSGCM was testified using synthetic pulsed neural network models and also in vitro cultured rat neural networks using multi-electrode array. As a result, we found a large number of feedback loops in the in vitro cultured neural networks with apparent synchronized oscillation, indicating a close relationship between synchronized oscillatory bursting behavior and underlying feedback loops. The MSGCM is an efficient method to investigate feedback loops embedded in in vitro cultured neural networks. The identified feedback loop motifs are considered as an important design principle responsible for the synchronized bursting behavior in neural networks.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Contact: \u00a0ckh@kaist.ac.kr<\/jats:p><jats:p>Availability: The software implementing MSGCM is available at Supplementary Information.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Supplementary Information: \u00a0Supplementary material are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/bts354","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2012,6,24]],"date-time":"2012-06-24T00:56:51Z","timestamp":1340499411000},"page":"2146-2153","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":16,"title":["Identification of feedback loops in neural networks based on multi-step Granger causality"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"28","author":[{"given":"Chao-Yi","family":"Dong","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Automatic Control, Inner Mongolia University of Technology, Huhhot 010080, People's Republic of China and 2Department of Bio and Brain Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon 305-701, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Dongkwan","family":"Shin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Automatic Control, Inner Mongolia University of Technology, Huhhot 010080, People's Republic of China and 2Department of Bio and Brain Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon 305-701, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Sunghoon","family":"Joo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Automatic Control, Inner Mongolia University of Technology, Huhhot 010080, People's Republic of China and 2Department of Bio and Brain Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon 305-701, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"YoonKey","family":"Nam","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Automatic Control, Inner Mongolia University of Technology, Huhhot 010080, People's Republic of China and 2Department of Bio and Brain Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon 305-701, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Kwang-Hyun","family":"Cho","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Automatic Control, Inner Mongolia University of Technology, Huhhot 010080, People's Republic of China and 2Department of Bio and Brain Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon 305-701, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2012,6,23]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023012512534109300_B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"450","DOI":"10.1038\/nrg2102","article-title":"Network motifs: theory and experimental approaches","volume":"8","author":"Alon","year":"2007","journal-title":"Nat. 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