Finding Time-Delayed Gene Regulation Patterns from Microarray Data

Discovered gene regulation networks are very helpful to predict unknown gene functions. Microarray gene expression data reveals activation and deactivation relations among genes. There are evidences showing that multiple time units delay exist in a gene regulation process. Association rule mining technique is very suitable for finding regulation relations among genes. However, current association rule mining techniques can not handle temporally ordered transactions. We propose a modified association rule mining technique for efficiently discovering time-delayed regulation relationships among genes.