Title: A Bottom-Up Approach to the Biclustering-Problem

Authors: Hyung-Won Koh, Lars Hildebrand

Addresses: ISAS – Institute for Analytical Sciences, Dortmund, Germany. ' University of Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

Abstract: The biclustering problem adresses the discovery of locally significant correlation within a data matrix and has recently become quite popular in the field of microarray data analysis. The preservation of a particularly defined degree of homogeneity between elements within a bicluster plays a key role in the search procedure. This work proposes a pairwise distance function related to the mean squared residue to introduce multiple enrichment algorithms. Based on a theoretical framework, the impact is demonstrated empirically by the enrichment of commonly available and also on artificially generated bicluster sets.

Keywords: biclustering; microarray analysis; heuristics; data mining; data matrix; bicluster sets.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCBDD.2008.020207

International Journal of Computational Biology and Drug Design, 2008 Vol.1 No.2, pp.158 - 173

Published online: 08 Sep 2008 *

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