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If the experimental data are inadequate for reliable inference of the network, informative priors have been shown to improve the accuracy of inferences.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Results: This study explores the potential of undirected, confidence-weighted networks, such as those in functional association databases, as a prior source for GRN inference. Such networks often erroneously indicate symmetric interaction between genes and may contain mostly correlation-based interaction information. Despite these drawbacks, our testing on synthetic datasets indicates that even noisy priors reflect some causal information that can improve GRN inference accuracy. 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