Gene functional classification from heterogeneous data

  • Authors:
  • Paul Pavlidis;Jason Weston;Jinsong Cai;William Noble Grundy

  • Affiliations:
  • Columbia Genome Center, Columbia University;Barnhill Technologies, Savannah, Georgia;Department of Medical Informatics, Columbia University;Department of Computer Science, Columbia University

  • Venue:
  • RECOMB '01 Proceedings of the fifth annual international conference on Computational biology
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

In our attempts to understand cellular function at the molecular level, we must be able to synthesize information from disparate types of genomic data. We consider the problem of inferring gene functional classifications from a heterogeneous data set consisting of DNA microarray expression measurements and phylogenetic profiles from whole-genome sequence comparisons. We demonstrate the application of the support vector machine (SVM) learning algorithm to this functional inference task. Our results suggest the importance of exploiting prior information about the heterogeneity of the data. In particular, we propose an SVM kernel function that is explicitly heterogeneous. We also show how to use knowledge about heterogeneity to aid in feature selection.