Investigate Yeastract and SGD APIs for regulatory information

[dondi]

SGD may be YeastMine. We want to look for regulation information there if available.

In the absence of API availability, we may need to develop a mechanism for storing the GRNs in our own database, and importing into them based on published files.

[Onariaginosa]

During this weekly session I went to YeastMine and selected the regulators tab. From there I was able to get all of regulator genes, and search for the targets of each regulator. YeastMine provided code to do this, so I am currently creating a file to generate all of the regulator and target genes.

During the meeting @kdahlquist mentioned that I should generate 2 adjacency matrices, a 295x295 regulator by regulator matrix that is primarily used in GRNmap, as well as the 295x???? regulator by target matrix.

[kdahlquist]

200x6000 regulator X target

I'm not sure how many genes SGD will classify as a regulators, it will be ~175-250.

[Onariaginosa]

I created the script to generate the regulators by regulators adjacency matrix as well as the regulators by targets adjacency matrix. There were 294 genes classified as regulators, and I generated all of their targets. Some genes did not have a standard name, so in the script they are not currently in the matrices.

[kdahlquist]

When there is no standard name, we need to substitute the systematic name instead.

[Onariaginosa]

I made the appropriate fix and regenerated the adjacency matrices.

[dondi]

Decided at the meeting to commit this work to a new top-level folder called database. .gitignore will also be revised to avoid accidental committal of files produced by these scripts

[Onariaginosa]

This is complete