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Partial mixture model for tight clustering of gene expression time-course
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posted on 2008-06-18, 00:00 authored by Yinyin Yuan, Chang-Tsun LiChang-Tsun Li, Roland WilsonBACKGROUND: Tight clustering arose recently from a desire to obtain tighter and potentially more informative clusters in gene expression studies. Scattered genes with relatively loose correlations should be excluded from the clusters. However, in the literature there is little work dedicated to this area of research. On the other hand, there has been extensive use of maximum likelihood techniques for model parameter estimation. By contrast, the minimum distance estimator has been largely ignored. RESULTS: In this paper we show the inherent robustness of the minimum distance estimator that makes it a powerful tool for parameter estimation in model-based time-course clustering. To apply minimum distance estimation, a partial mixture model that can naturally incorporate replicate information and allow scattered genes is formulated. We provide experimental results of simulated data fitting, where the minimum distance estimator demonstrates superior performance to the maximum likelihood estimator. Both biological and statistical validations are conducted on a simulated dataset and two real gene expression datasets. Our proposed partial regression clustering algorithm scores top in Gene Ontology driven evaluation, in comparison with four other popular clustering algorithms. CONCLUSION: For the first time partial mixture model is successfully extended to time-course data analysis. The robustness of our partial regression clustering algorithm proves the suitability of the combination of both partial mixture model and minimum distance estimator in this field. We show that tight clustering not only is capable to generate more profound understanding of the dataset under study well in accordance to established biological knowledge, but also presents interesting new hypotheses during interpretation of clustering results. In particular, we provide biological evidences that scattered genes can be relevant and are interesting subjects for study, in contrast to prevailing opinion.
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BMC bioinformaticsVolume
9Article number
287Pagination
1 - 17Publisher
BioMed CentralLocation
London, Eng.Publisher DOI
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1471-2105Language
engPublication classification
C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
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Gene OntologyMaximum Likelihood EstimatorSimulated DatasetPartial RegressionTight ClusterScience & TechnologyLife Sciences & BiomedicineBiochemical Research MethodsBiotechnology & Applied MicrobiologyMathematical & Computational BiologyBiochemistry & Molecular BiologyMINIMUM DISTANCEMICROARRAY DATACELL-CYCLEINFORMATIONNETWORKBIOLOGYROBUST
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