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We used previously published in vivo in situ hybridization expression data to ground truth gene interactions predicted by the GRN and show that candidate biomineralization genes from different shell layers, and hence microstructures, were connected in unique modules. We characterized two biomineralization modules of the GRN and hypothesize that one module is responsible for translating the extracellular proteins required for growing, repairing or remodelling the nacreous shell layer, whereas the second module orchestrates the transport of both ions and proteins to the shell secretion site, which are required during normal shell growth, and repair. Our findings demonstrate that unbiased computational methods are particularly valuable for studying fundamental biological processes and gene interactions in non-model species where rich sources of gene expression data exist, but annotation rates are poor and the ability to carry out true functional tests are still lacking.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Availability and implementation<\/jats:title><jats:p>The raw RNA-Seq data is freely available for download from NCBI SRA (Accession: PRJNA398984), the assembled and annotated transcriptome can be viewed and downloaded from molluscDB (ensembl.molluscdb.org) and in addition, the assembled transcripts, reconstructed GRN, modules and detailed annotations are all available as Supplementary Files.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Supplementary information<\/jats:title><jats:p>Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btz754","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,10,8]],"date-time":"2019-10-08T08:19:25Z","timestamp":1570522765000},"page":"1326-1332","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":33,"title":["Computationally predicted gene regulatory networks in molluscan biomineralization identify extracellular matrix production and ion transportation pathways"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"36","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0550-8500","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Victoria A","family":"Sleight","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge , Cambridge, UK"},{"name":"Biodiversity, Evolution and Adaptation Team, British Antarctic Survey , Cambridge, UK"}]},{"given":"Philipp","family":"Antczak","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Functional and Comparative Genomics, Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool , Liverpool, UK"}]},{"given":"Francesco","family":"Falciani","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Functional and Comparative Genomics, Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool , Liverpool, UK"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3442-3824","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Melody S","family":"Clark","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Biodiversity, Evolution and Adaptation Team, British Antarctic Survey , Cambridge, UK"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,10,16]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023060910265491300_btz754-B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"dev175976.","DOI":"10.1242\/dev.175976","article-title":"The development of CRISPR for a mollusc establishes the formin Lsdia1 as the long-sought gene for snail dextral\/sinistral coiling","volume":"146","author":"Abe","year":"2019","journal-title":"Development"},{"key":"2023060910265491300_btz754-B2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1945","DOI":"10.1002\/jbmr.2709","article-title":"The roles and mechanisms of actions of vitamin C in bone: new Developments","volume":"30","author":"Aghajanian","year":"2015","journal-title":"J. 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