Background: Agglomerative hierarchical clustering (AHC) is a common unsupervised data analysis technique used in several biological applications. Standard AHC methods require that...
Background: The ESTuber database (http://www.itb.cnr.it/estuber) includes 3,271 Tuber borchii expressed sequence tags (EST). The dataset consists of 2,389 sequences from an in-hou...
Barbara Lazzari, Andrea Caprera, Cristian Cosentin...
Estimating an overall density function from repeated observations on each of a sample of independent subjects or experimental units is of interest. An example is provided by biodem...
In this paper, we introduce a novel objective function for the hierarchical clustering of data from distance matrices, a very relevant task in Bioinformatics. To test the robustnes...
Pritha Mahata, Wagner Costa, Carlos Cotta, Pablo M...
The growing body of DNA microarray data has the potential to advance our understanding of the molecular basis of disease. However annotating microarray datasets with clinically us...