Discovering α-patterns from gene expression data

  • Authors:
  • Domingo S. Rodríguez Baena;Norberto Diaz Diaz;Jesús S. Aguilar Ruiz;Isabel Nepomuceno Chamorro

  • Affiliations:
  • Pablo de Olavide University, Seville, Spain;Pablo de Olavide University, Seville, Spain;Pablo de Olavide University, Seville, Spain;Seville University, Seville, Spain

  • Venue:
  • IDEAL'07 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Intelligent data engineering and automated learning
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

The biclustering techniques have the purpose of finding subsets of genes that show similar activity patterns under a subset of conditions. In this paper we characterize a specific type of pattern, that we have called α-pattern, and present an approach that consists in a new biclustering algorithm specifically designed to find α-patterns, in which the gene expression values evolve across the experimental conditions showing a similar behavior inside a band that ranges from 0 up to a pre-defined threshold called a. The a value guarantees the co-expression among genes. We have tested our method on the Yeast dataset and compared the results to the biclustering algorithms of Cheng & Church (2000) and Aguilar & Divina (2005). Results show that the algorithm finds interesting biclusters, grouping genes with similar behaviors and maintaining a very low mean squared residue.