Background: Mean-based clustering algorithms such as bisecting k-means generally lack robustness. Although componentwise median is a more robust alternative, it can be a poor cent...
Yuanyuan Ding, Xin Dang, Hanxiang Peng, Dawn Wilki...
Background: The majority of common diseases are multi-factorial and modified by genetically and mechanistically complex polygenic interactions and environmental factors. High-thro...
Jing Chen, Huan Xu, Bruce J. Aronow, Anil G. Jegga
In this paper we present a method for clustering SAGE (Serial Analysis of Gene Expression) data to detect similarities and dissimilarities between different types of cancer on the...
Background: Chow and Liu showed that the maximum likelihood tree for multivariate discrete distributions may be found using a maximum weight spanning tree algorithm, for example K...
David Edwards, Gabriel C. G. de Abreu, Rodrigo Lab...
Microarray experiments are emerging as one of the main driving forces in modern biology. By allowing the simultaneous monitoring of the expression of the entire genome for a given...