The invention relates to the technical field of
bioinformatics, in particular to a method for constructing a
gene network based on two-stage
Granger causality and application, and the method comprises the following steps: firstly, carrying out global
Granger causality test based on
gene expression
time sequence data, and constructing an initial candidate network containing all potential regulation and control relationships; and then, refining the candidate network by adopting a dynamic
pruning strategy based on event driving. And before the
target gene expression has significant fluctuation, detecting whether the candidate regulatory
gene has synchronous significant expression change or not, and verifying the causal driving force of the candidate regulatory gene. And only the regulation and control relationship passing the
verification is reserved, so that wrong causal association is effectively removed, and optimization of the
network structure is realized. The network constructed by the invention better conforms to a real
biological regulation rule, and can better reflect the dynamics and
directivity of a regulation relationship in a
biological system; the method is especially suitable for the research fields of
plant stress response, development regulation and control,
system biology and the like, and has wide application prospects and practical values.