Significance Metrics for Clusters of Mixed Numerical and Categorical Yeast Data
Bill Andreopoulos, Aijun An and Xiaogang Wang
Technical Report CS-2003-12
York University
October 2003
Abstract
We designed, implemented and tested a clustering tool for numerical data sets derived from gene expression DNA microarray studies. Our tool incorporates into the clustering process the existing knowledge as categorical annotations (CAs) on the genes, as well as the uncertainties concerning the correctness of the CAs as confidence values (CVs) on the CAs. CVs are a measure of the certainty of correctness of the existing knowledge and are derived from GeneOntology Evidence Codes. This allowed us to apply new significance metrics to the resulting clusters to extract the most prominent CAs in the clusters. We applied the extracted CAs to the other genes in the cluster to predict their function and we validated the predictions.
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