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These aberration events are very heterogeneous across tumors and it is poorly understood how they affect the molecular makeup of the cell, including the transcriptome and proteome. Protein interaction networks can help decode the functional relationship between aberration events and changes in gene and protein expression.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>We developed NetICS (Network-based Integration of Multi-omics Data), a new graph diffusion-based method for prioritizing cancer genes by integrating diverse molecular data types on a directed functional interaction network. NetICS prioritizes genes by their mediator effect, defined as the proximity of the gene to upstream aberration events and to downstream differentially expressed genes and proteins in an interaction network. Genes are prioritized for individual samples separately and integrated using a robust rank aggregation technique. NetICS provides a comprehensive computational framework that can aid in explaining the heterogeneity of aberration events by their functional convergence to common differentially expressed genes and proteins. We demonstrate NetICS\u2019 competitive performance in predicting known cancer genes and in generating robust gene lists using TCGA data from five cancer types.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Availability and implementation<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>NetICS is available at https:\/\/github.com\/cbg-ethz\/netics.<\/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\/bty148","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,3,14]],"date-time":"2018-03-14T09:13:03Z","timestamp":1521018783000},"page":"2441-2448","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":145,"title":["Network-based integration of multi-omics data for prioritizing cancer genes"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"34","author":[{"given":"Christos","family":"Dimitrakopoulos","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Z\u00fcrich, Basel, Switzerland"},{"name":"SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Basel, Switzerland"}]},{"given":"Sravanth Kumar","family":"Hindupur","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland"}]},{"given":"Luca","family":"H\u00e4fliger","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Z\u00fcrich, Basel, Switzerland"}]},{"given":"Jonas","family":"Behr","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Z\u00fcrich, Basel, Switzerland"},{"name":"SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Basel, Switzerland"}]},{"given":"Hesam","family":"Montazeri","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Z\u00fcrich, Basel, Switzerland"},{"name":"SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Basel, Switzerland"}]},{"given":"Michael N","family":"Hall","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland"}]},{"given":"Niko","family":"Beerenwinkel","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Z\u00fcrich, Basel, Switzerland"},{"name":"SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Basel, Switzerland"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,3,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023012713013000500_bty148-B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"798","DOI":"10.1042\/BST20140070","article-title":"PI3k\/akt-mediated regulation of p53 in cancer","volume":"42","author":"Abraham","year":"2014","journal-title":"Biochem. 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