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Nowadays, RNA-seq data provides high dimensional information to quantify gene expressions in term of read counts for individual exons of genes. Such an increase in the dimension of expression data during the transition from microarray to RNA-seq era made many previous co-expression analysis algorithms based on simple univariate correlation no longer applicable. Recently, two vector-based methods, SpliceNet and RNASeqNet, have been proposed to build GCN. However, they failed to work when sample size is less than the number of exons.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>We develop an algorithm called VCNet to construct GCN from RNA-seq data to overcome this dimensional problem. VCNet performs a new statistical hypothesis test based on the correlation matrix of a gene\u2013gene pair using the Frobenius norm. The asymptotic distribution of the new test is obtained under the null model. Simulation studies demonstrate that VCNet outperforms SpliceNet and RNASeqNet for detecting edges of GCN. We also apply VCNet to two expression datasets from TCGA database: the normal breast tissue and kidney tumour tissue, and the results show that the GCNs constructed by VCNet contain more biologically meaningful interactions than existing methods.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>VCNet is a useful tool to construct co-expression network.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Availability and Implementation<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>VCNet is open source and freely available from https:\/\/github.com\/wangzengmiao\/VCNet under GNU LGPL v3<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Supplementary information<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btx131","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,3,7]],"date-time":"2017-03-07T20:11:30Z","timestamp":1488917490000},"page":"2173-2181","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["VCNet: vector-based gene co-expression network construction and its application to RNA-seq data"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"33","author":[{"given":"Zengmiao","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Center for Quantitative Biology, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Huaying","family":"Fang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Center for Quantitative Biology, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing, China"},{"name":"LMAM, School of Mathematical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Nelson Leung-Sang","family":"Tang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Chemical Pathology and Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Minghua","family":"Deng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Center for Quantitative Biology, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing, China"},{"name":"LMAM, School of Mathematical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China"},{"name":"Center for Statistical Science, Peking University, Beijing, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2017,3,8]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023051506361064000_btx131-B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1573","DOI":"10.1002\/cncr.11246","article-title":"Levels of hypoxia-inducible factor-1\u03b1 independently predict prognosis in patients with lymph node negative breast carcinoma","volume":"97","author":"Bos","year":"2003","journal-title":"Cancer"},{"key":"2023051506361064000_btx131-B2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"e1002503.","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pcbi.1002503","article-title":"Prediction of drug-target interactions and drug repositioning via network-based inference","volume":"8","author":"Cheng","year":"2012","journal-title":"PLoS Comput. 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