Title
Ontology-Driven Co-clustering of Gene Expression Data
Abstract
The huge volume of gene expression data produced by microarrays and other high-throughput techniques has encouraged the development of new computational techniques to evaluate the data and to formulate new biological hypotheses. To this purpose, co-clustering techniques are widely used: these identify groups of genes that show similar activity patterns under a specific subset of the experimental conditions by measuring the similarity in expression within these groups. However, in many applications, distance metrics based only on expression levels fail in capturing biologically meaningful clusters. We propose a methodology in which a standard expression-based co-clustering algorithm is enhanced by sets of constraints which take into account the similarity/dissimilarity (inferred by the Gene Ontology, GO) between pairs of genes. Our approach minimizes the intervention of the analyst within the co-clustering process. It provides meaningful co-clusters whose discovery and interpretation is increased by embedding GO annotations.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1007/978-3-642-10291-2_43
AI*IA
Keywords
Field
DocType
gene ontology,new biological hypothesis,new computational technique,gene expression data,meaningful co-clusters,biologically meaningful cluster,expression level,co-clustering process,standard expression-based co-clustering algorithm,ontology-driven co-clustering,co-clustering technique,high throughput,distance metric
Ontology,Data mining,Embedding,Gene ontology,Computer science,Gene expression,Biclustering,Transitive closure,DNA microarray
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
5883
0302-9743
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.38
11
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Francesca Cordero16313.42
Ruggero G. Pensa235431.20
Alessia Visconti382.85
Dino Ienco429542.01
Marco Botta528441.98