Clustering for bioinformatics via matrix optimization

  • Authors:
  • Suely Oliveira;David E. Stewart

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa;University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedicine
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

A new matrix-based clustering method is presented that is able to handle medium to large data sets that is related to semi-definite programming techniques. The method proposed involves solving a non-convex optimization problem. The problem of local minima that are far from global minima, however, does not appear to be a great difficulty. The method was applied to a well known biological clustering problem, and appears to produce consistent clusterings that are close to the original claimed clustering.