Center CLICK: A Clustering Algorithm with Applications to Gene Expression Analysis
Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology
Discovering Clusters in Gene Expression Data Using Evolutionary Approach
ICTAI '03 Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence
Mining coherent gene clusters from gene-sample-time microarray data
Proceedings of the tenth ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining
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In this work, we propose a new greedy clustering algorithm to identify groups of related genes. Clustering algorithms analyze genes in order to group those with similar behavior. Instead, our approach groups pairs of genes that present similar positive and/or negative interactions. Our approach presents some interesting properties. For instance, the user can specify how the range of each gene is going to be segmented (labels). Some of these will mean expressed or inhibited (depending on the gradation). From all the label combinations a function transforms each pair of labels into another one, that identifies the type of interaction. From these pairs of genes and their interactions we build clusters in a greedy, iterative fashion, as two pairs of genes will be similar if they have the same amount of relevant interactions. Initial two–genes clusters grow iteratively based on their neighborhood until the set of clusters does not change. The algorithm allows the researcher to modify all the criteria: discretization mapping function, gene–gene mapping function and filtering function, and provides much flexibility to obtain clusters based on the level of precision needed. The performance of our approach is experimentally tested on the yeast dataset. The final number of clusters is low and genes within show a significant level of cohesion, as it is shown graphically in the experiments.