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Several network filtering methods have been created to predict the gene targets of drugs from gene expression data based on an ordinary differential equation model of the gene regulatory network (GRN). A critical step in these methods involves inferring the GRN from the expression data, which is a very challenging problem on its own. In addition, existing network filtering methods require computationally intensive parameter tuning or expression data from experiments with known genetic perturbations or both.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Results: We developed a method called DeltaNet for the identification of drug targets from gene expression data. Here, the gene target predictions were directly inferred from the data without a separate step of GRN inference. DeltaNet formulation led to solving an underdetermined linear regression problem, for which we employed least angle regression (DeltaNet-LAR) or LASSO regularization (DeltaNet-LASSO). The predictions using DeltaNet for expression data of Escherichia coli , yeast, fruit fly and human were significantly more accurate than those using network filtering methods, namely mode of action by network identification (MNI) and sparse simultaneous equation model (SSEM). Furthermore, DeltaNet using LAR did not require any parameter tuning and could provide computational speed-up over existing methods.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Conclusion: DeltaNet is a robust and numerically efficient tool for identifying gene perturbations from gene expression data. Importantly, the method requires little to no expert supervision, while providing accurate gene target predictions.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Availability and implementation: DeltaNet is available on http:\/\/www.cabsel.ethz.ch\/tools\/DeltaNet .<\/jats:p><jats:p>Contact: \u00a0rudi.gunawan@chem.ethz.ch<\/jats:p><jats:p>Supplementary information: \u00a0Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btw148","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2016,3,19]],"date-time":"2016-03-19T01:40:00Z","timestamp":1458351600000},"page":"2120-2127","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":19,"title":["Inferring gene targets of drugs and chemical compounds from gene expression profiles"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"32","author":[{"given":"Heeju","family":"Noh","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering, Zurich, ETH Zurich, Switzerland"},{"name":"2 Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Rudiyanto","family":"Gunawan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering, Zurich, ETH Zurich, Switzerland"},{"name":"2 Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2016,3,18]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023020112442676000_btw148-B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"D991","DOI":"10.1093\/nar\/gks1193","article-title":"NCBI GEO: archive for functional genomics data sets\u2013update","volume":"41","author":"Barrett","year":"2013","journal-title":"Nucleic Acids Res"},{"key":"2023020112442676000_btw148-B2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"217","DOI":"10.4137\/BBI.S12167","article-title":"Systematic verification of upstream regulators of a computable cellular proliferation network model on non-diseased lung cells using a dedicated dataset","volume":"7","author":"Belcastro","year":"2013","journal-title":"Bioinf. 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