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Linear models and empirical Bayes methods for assessing differential expression in microarray experiments
- STAT. APPL. GENET. MOL. BIOL
, 2004
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Survey of clustering algorithms
- IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL NETWORKS
, 2005
"... Data analysis plays an indispensable role for understanding various phenomena. Cluster analysis, primitive exploration with little or no prior knowledge, consists of research developed across a wide variety of communities. The diversity, on one hand, equips us with many tools. On the other hand, the ..."
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Data analysis plays an indispensable role for understanding various phenomena. Cluster analysis, primitive exploration with little or no prior knowledge, consists of research developed across a wide variety of communities. The diversity, on one hand, equips us with many tools. On the other hand, the profusion of options causes confusion. We survey clustering algorithms for data sets appearing in statistics, computer science, and machine learning, and illustrate their applications in some benchmark data sets, the traveling salesman problem, and bioinformatics, a new field attracting intensive efforts. Several tightly related topics, proximity measure, and cluster validation, are also discussed.
A review of feature selection techniques in bioinformatics
- BIOINFORMATICS
, 2007
"... Feature selection techniques have become an apparent need in many bioinformatics applications. In addition to the large pool of techniques that have already been developed in the machine learning and data mining fields, specific applications in bioinformatics have led to a wealth of newly proposed t ..."
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Feature selection techniques have become an apparent need in many bioinformatics applications. In addition to the large pool of techniques that have already been developed in the machine learning and data mining fields, specific applications in bioinformatics have led to a wealth of newly proposed techniques. In this paper, we make the interested reader aware of the possibilities of feature selection, providing a basic taxonomy of feature selection techniques, and discussing their use, variety and potential in a number of both common as well as upcoming bioinformatics applications.
Use of within-array replicate spots for assessing differential expression in microarray experiments
- Bioinformatics
, 2005
"... Motivation. Spotted arrays are often printed with probes in duplicate or triplicate, but current methods for assessing differential expression are not able to make full use of the resulting information. Usual practice is to average the duplicate or triplicate results for each probe before assessing ..."
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Motivation. Spotted arrays are often printed with probes in duplicate or triplicate, but current methods for assessing differential expression are not able to make full use of the resulting information. Usual practice is to average the duplicate or triplicate results for each probe before assessing differential expression. This loses valuable information about gene-wise variability. Results. A method is proposed for extracting more information from within-array replicate spots in microarray experiments by estimating the strength of the correlation between them. The method involves fitting separate linear models to the expression data for each gene but with a common value for the between-replicate correlation. The method greatly improves the precision with which the genewise variances are estimated and thereby improves inference methods designed to identify differentially expressed genes. The method may be combined with empirical Bayes methods for moderating the genewise variances between genes. The method is validated using data from a microarray experiment involving calibration and ratio control spots in conjunction with spiked-in RNA. Comparing results for calibration and ratio control spots shows that the common correlation method results in substantially better discrimination of differentially expressed genes from those which are not. The spike-in experiment also confirms that the results may be further improved by empirical Bayes smoothing of the variances when the sample size is small. Availability. The methodology is implemented in the limma software package for R, available from the CRAN repository
Cluster Analysis for Gene Expression Data: A Survey
- IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
, 2004
"... Abstract—DNA microarray technology has now made it possible to simultaneously monitor the expression levels of thousands of genes during important biological processes and across collections of related samples. Elucidating the patterns hidden in gene expression data offers a tremendous opportunity f ..."
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Abstract—DNA microarray technology has now made it possible to simultaneously monitor the expression levels of thousands of genes during important biological processes and across collections of related samples. Elucidating the patterns hidden in gene expression data offers a tremendous opportunity for an enhanced understanding of functional genomics. However, the large number of genes and the complexity of biological networks greatly increases the challenges of comprehending and interpreting the resulting mass of data, which often consists of millions of measurements. A first step toward addressing this challenge is the use of clustering techniques, which is essential in the data mining process to reveal natural structures and identify interesting patterns in the underlying data. Cluster analysis seeks to partition a given data set into groups based on specified features so that the data points within a group are more similar to each other than the points in different groups. A very rich literature on cluster analysis has developed over the past three decades. Many conventional clustering algorithms have been adapted or directly applied to gene expression data, and also new algorithms have recently been proposed specifically aiming at gene expression data. These clustering algorithms have been proven useful for identifying biologically relevant groups of genes and samples. In this paper, we first briefly introduce the concepts of microarray technology and discuss the basic elements of clustering on gene expression data. In particular, we divide cluster analysis for gene expression data into three categories. Then, we present specific challenges pertinent to each clustering category and introduce several representative approaches. We also discuss the problem of cluster validation in three aspects and review various methods to assess the quality and reliability of clustering results. Finally, we conclude this paper and suggest the promising trends in this field. Index Terms—Microarray technology, gene expression data, clustering.
Model-based Variance-stabilizing Transformation for Illumina Microarray Data’, Nucleic Acids Res
, 2008
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Fundamentals of cDNA Microarray Data Analysis
- Trends Genet
, 2003
"... genomics research. The multi-step, data-intensive nature of this technology has created an unprecedented informatics and analytical challenge. It is important to understand the crucial steps that can affect the outcome of the analysis. In this review, we provide an overview of the contemporary trend ..."
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genomics research. The multi-step, data-intensive nature of this technology has created an unprecedented informatics and analytical challenge. It is important to understand the crucial steps that can affect the outcome of the analysis. In this review, we provide an overview of the contemporary trend on various main analysis steps in the microarray data analysis process, which includes experimental design, data standardization, image acquisition and analysis, normalization, statistical significance inference, exploratory data analysis, class prediction and pathway analysis, as well as various considerations relevant to their implementation. The development of microarray technology has been phenomenal in the past few years. It has become a standard tool in many genomics research laboratories. The reason for this popularity is that microarrays have revolutionized the approach to biological research. Instead of working on a gene-by-gene basis, scientists can now study tens of thousands of genes at once. Unfortunately, they are often daunted and confused by the complexity of data analyses. Although it is advisable to collaborate with statisticians and mathematicians on performing a proper data analysis, it is crucial to understand the fundamentals of data analysis. In this review, we explain these fundamentals step-by-step (Figure 1; Table 1). Instead of discussing any particular analysis software, we focus primarily on the rationale behind the analysis processes and the key factors that affect the quality of the result. For a compilation of current microarray analysis software see a recent article [1] and author’s website
Optimal Sample Size for Multiple Testing: the Case of Gene Expression Microarrays
- Journal of the American Statistical Association
, 2004
"... We consider the choice of an optimal sample size for multiple comparison problems. The motivating application is the choice of the number of microarray experiments to be carried out when learning about dierential gene expression. However, the approach is valid in any application that involves multip ..."
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We consider the choice of an optimal sample size for multiple comparison problems. The motivating application is the choice of the number of microarray experiments to be carried out when learning about dierential gene expression. However, the approach is valid in any application that involves multiple comparison in a large number of hypothesis tests.
A multivariate empirical bayes statistic for replicated microarray time course data
- Annals of Statistics
, 2006
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Statistical strategies for avoiding false discoveries in metabolomics and related experiments
, 2006
"... Many metabolomics, and other high-content or high-throughput, experiments are set up such that the primary aim is the discovery of biomarker metabolites that can discriminate, with a certain level of certainty, between nominally matched ‘case ’ and ‘control ’ samples. However, it is unfortunately ve ..."
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Many metabolomics, and other high-content or high-throughput, experiments are set up such that the primary aim is the discovery of biomarker metabolites that can discriminate, with a certain level of certainty, between nominally matched ‘case ’ and ‘control ’ samples. However, it is unfortunately very easy to find markers that are apparently persuasive but that are in fact entirely spurious, and there are well-known examples in the proteomics literature. The main types of danger are not entirely independent of each other, but include bias, inadequate sample size (especially relative to the number of metabolite variables and to the required statistical power to prove that a biomarker is discriminant), excessive false discovery rate due to multiple hypothesis testing, inappropriate choice of particular numerical methods, and overfitting (generally caused by the failure to perform adequate validation and cross-validation). Many studies fail to take these into account, and thereby fail to discover anything of true significance (despite their claims). We summarise these problems, and provide pointers to a substantial existing literature that should assist in the improved design and evaluation of metabolomics experiments, thereby allowing robust scientific conclusions to be drawn from the available data. We provide a list of some of the simpler checks that might improve one’s confidence that a candidate biomarker is not simply a statistical artefact, and suggest a series of preferred tests and visualisation tools that can assist readers and authors in assessing papers. These tools can be applied to individual metabolites by using multiple univariate tests performed in parallel across all metabolite peaks. They may also be applied to the validation of multivariate models. We stress in
