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In the Inter-species Pathway Perturbation Prediction sub-challenge, multiple teams proposed methods to use rat transcription data from 26 stimuli to predict human gene set and pathway activity under the same perturbations. Submissions were evaluated using three performance metrics on data from the remaining 26 stimuli.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Results: We present two approaches, ranked second in this challenge, that do not rely on sequence-based orthology between rat and human genes to translate pathway perturbation state but instead identify transcriptional response orthologs across a set of training conditions. The translation from rat to human accomplished by these so-called direct methods is not dependent on the particular analysis method used to identify perturbed gene sets. In contrast, machine learning-based methods require performing a pathway analysis initially and then mapping the pathway activity between organisms. Unlike most machine learning approaches, direct methods can be used to predict the activation of a human pathway for a new (test) stimuli, even when that pathway was never activated by a training stimuli.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Availability: Gene expression data are available from ArrayExpress (accession E-MTAB-2091), while software implementations are available from http:\/\/bioinformaticsprb.med.wayne.edu?p=50 and http:\/\/goo.gl\/hJny3h.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Contact: \u00a0christoph.hafemeister@nyu.edu or atarca@med.wayne.edu.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Supplementary information: \u00a0Supplementary Data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btu570","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2014,8,23]],"date-time":"2014-08-23T04:14:10Z","timestamp":1408767250000},"page":"501-508","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Inter-species pathway perturbation prediction via data-driven detection of functional homology"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"31","author":[{"given":"Christoph","family":"Hafemeister","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1 \u00a01Department of Biology, Center for Genomics & Systems Biology, New York University, New York, NY 10003, 2Perinatology Research Branch, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH, Bethesda, MD and Detroit, MI 48201, USA, 3IBM Thomas J. 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