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To our knowledge, no or little effort has been devoted to methods that consider dependence structures underlying transcriptomics data for DEG identification in meta-analysis context.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Results: This article proposes a new meta-analysis method for identification of DEGs based on joint non-negative matrix factorization (jNMFMA). We mathematically extend non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) to a joint version (jNMF), which is used to simultaneously decompose multiple transcriptomics data matrices into one common submatrix plus multiple individual submatrices. By the jNMF, the dependence structures underlying transcriptomics data can be interrogated and utilized, while the high-dimensional transcriptomics data are mapped into a low-dimensional space spanned by metagenes that represent hidden biological signals. jNMFMA finally identifies DEGs as genes that are associated with differentially expressed metagenes. The ability of extracting dependence structures makes jNMFMA more efficient and robust to identify DEGs in meta-analysis context. Furthermore, jNMFMA is also flexible to identify DEGs that are consistent among various types of omics data, e.g. gene expression and DNA methylation. Experimental results on both simulation data and real-world cancer data demonstrate the effectiveness of jNMFMA and its superior performance over other popular approaches.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Availability and implementation: R code for jNMFMA is available for non-commercial use viahttp:\/\/micblab.iim.ac.cn\/Download\/.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Contact: \u00a0hqwang@ustc.edu<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Supplementary information: \u00a0Supplementary Data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btu679","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2014,10,18]],"date-time":"2014-10-18T02:34:38Z","timestamp":1413599678000},"page":"572-580","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":53,"title":["<i>j<\/i>NMFMA: a joint non-negative matrix factorization meta-analysis of transcriptomics data"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"31","author":[{"given":"Hong-Qiang","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1 \u00a01Machine Intelligence and Computational Biology Lab, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Science, Hefei 230031, China, 2College of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Anhui University, Hefei 230031, China and 3Department of Computer Science, School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Chun-Hou","family":"Zheng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 \u00a01Machine Intelligence and Computational Biology Lab, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Science, Hefei 230031, China, 2College of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Anhui University, Hefei 230031, China and 3Department of Computer Science, School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xing-Ming","family":"Zhao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 \u00a01Machine Intelligence and Computational Biology Lab, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Science, Hefei 230031, China, 2College of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Anhui University, Hefei 230031, China and 3Department of Computer Science, School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2014,10,16]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023020108564605200_btu679-B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1005","DOI":"10.1016\/j.cell.2010.11.013","article-title":"An integrated approach to uncover drivers of cancer","volume":"143","author":"Akavia","year":"2010","journal-title":"Cell"},{"key":"2023020108564605200_btu679-B2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btm546","article-title":"Computational epigenetics","volume":"24","author":"Bock","year":"2008","journal-title":"Bioinformatics"},{"key":"2023020108564605200_btu679-B3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1171","DOI":"10.1142\/S0219720005001442","article-title":"Rank-based methods as a non-parametric alternative of the T-statistic for the analysis of biological microarray data","volume":"3","author":"Breitling","year":"2005","journal-title":"J. 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