Supervised learning in the gene ontology part II: a bottom-up algorithm

  • Authors:
  • Herman Midelfart

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

  • Venue:
  • Transactions on Rough Sets IV
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Prediction of gene function for expression profiles introduces a new problem for supervised learning algorithms. The decision classes are taken from an ontology, which defines relationships between the classes. Supervised algorithms, on the other hand, assumes that the classes are unrelated. Hence, we introduce a new algorithm which can take these relationships into account. This is tested on a microarray data set created from human fibroblast cells and on several artificial data sets. Since standard performance measures do not apply to this problem, we also introduce several new measures for measuring classification performance in an ontology.