mdclust---exploratory microarray analysis by multidimensional clustering

  • Authors:
  • M. Dugas;S. Merk;S. Breit;P. Dirschedl

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Medical Informatics, Marchioninistr. 15, D-81377 Munich, Germany;Department of Medical Informatics, Marchioninistr. 15, D-81377 Munich, Germany;Department of Dermatology, Frauenlobstraße 9-11, D-80337 Munich, Germany;Department of Medical Informatics, Marchioninistr. 15, D-81377 Munich, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Bioinformatics
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Motivation: Unsupervised clustering of microarray data may detect potentially important, but not obvious characteristics of samples, for instance subgroups of diagnoses with distinct gene profiles or systematic errors in experimentation. Results: Multidimensional clustering (mdclust) is a method, which identifies sets of sample clusters and associated genes. It applies iteratively two-means clustering and score-based gene selection. For any phenotype variable best matching sets of clusters can be selected. This provides a method to identify gene--phenotype associations, suited even for settings with a large number of phenotype variables. An optional model based discriminant step may reduce further the number of selected genes. Availability: R-code and supplemental information available from http://martin-dugas.de/mdclust/ Supplementary information: http://martin-dugas.de/mdclust/