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Mining gene–sample–time microarray data: a coherent gene cluster discovery approach

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Extensive studies have shown that mining microarray data sets is important in bioinformatics research and biomedical applications. In this paper, we explore a novel type of gene–sample–time microarray data sets that records the expression levels of various genes under a set of samples during a series of time points. In particular, we propose the mining of coherent gene clusters from such data sets. Each cluster contains a subset of genes and a subset of samples such that the genes are coherent on the samples along the time series. The coherent gene clusters may identify the samples corresponding to some phenotypes (e.g., diseases), and suggest the candidate genes correlated to the phenotypes. We present two efficient algorithms, namely the Sample-Gene Search and the Gene–Sample Search, to mine the complete set of coherent gene clusters. We empirically evaluate the performance of our approaches on both a real microarray data set and synthetic data sets. The test results have shown that our approaches are both efficient and effective to find meaningful coherent gene clusters.

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    Daxin Jiang

  2. Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada

    Jian Pei

  3. State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, USA

    Murali Ramanathan, Chuan Lin, Chun Tang & Aidong Zhang

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Daxin Jiang received the Ph.D. degree in computer science and engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 2005. He received the B.S. degree in computer science from the University of Science and Technology of China. From 1998 to 2000, he was a M.S. student in Software Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is currently an assistant professor at the School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technology University, Singapore. His research interests include data mining, bioinformatics, machine learning, and information retrieval.

Jian Pei received the Ph.D. degree in computing science from Simon Fraser University, Canada, in 2002, under Dr. Jiawei Han's supervision. He also received the B.Eng. and the M.Eng. degrees from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, in 1991 and 1993, respectively, both in Computer Science. He is currently an assistant professor of computing science at Simon Fraser University. His research interests include developing effective and efficient data analysis techniques for novel data intensive applications. He is currently interested in various techniques of data mining, data warehousing, online analytical processing, and database systems, as well as their applications in bioinformatics. His current research is supported in part by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) of the United States. Since 2000, he has published over 70 research papers in refereed journals, conferences, and workshops, has served in the organization committees and the program committees of over 60 international conferences and workshops, and has been a reviewer for some leading academic journals. He is a member of the ACM, the ACM SIGMOD, and the ACM SIGKDD.

Murali Ramanathan is an associate professor of pharmaceutical sciences and neurology. He received the B.Tech. (Honors) in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, India, in 1983. After a 4-year stint in the chemical industry, he obtained the M.S. degree in chemical engineering from Iowa State University, Ames, IA, in 1987, and the Ph.D. degree in bioengineering from the University of California-San Francisco and University of California-Berkeley Joint Program in Bioengineering in 1994. Dr. Ramanathan research interests are primarily focused on the treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS), an inflammatory-demyelinating disease of the central nervous system that affects over 1 million patients worldwide. MS is a complex, variable disease that causes physical and cognitive disability and nearly 50% of patients diagnosed with MS are unable to walk after 15 years. The etiology and pathogenesis of MS remains poorly understood. Dr. Ramanathan's research interests include stochastic modeling of pharmaceutical systems and novel approaches to analyzing and using genetic and genomic data for improving patient care and optimizing therapy.

Chuan Lin is currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo. She received the B.E. and the M.S. degrees in computer science and technology from Tsinghua University in China. Her research interests include bioinformatics, data mining, and machine learning.

Chun Tang received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from Peking University, China, in 1996 and 1999, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from State University of New York at Buffalo, USA, in 2005, all in computer science. Currently, she is a postdoctoral associate of Center for Medical Informatics, Yale University. Her research interests include bioinformatics, data mining, machine learning, database, and information retrieval.

Aidong Zhang received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, in 1994. She was an assistant professor from 1994 to 1999, an associate professor from 1999 to 2002, and has been a professor since 2002 in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at State University of New York at Buffalo. Her research interests include multimedia systems, content-based image retrieval, bioinformatics, and data mining. She is an author of over 140 research publications in these areas. Dr. Zhang's research has been funded by NSF, NIH, NIMA, and Xerox. Zhang serves on the editorial boards of International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications (IJBRA), ACM Multimedia Systems, International Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications, and International Journal of Distributed and Parallel Databases. She was the editor for ACM SIGMOD DiSC (Digital Symposium Collection) from 2001 to 2003. She was co-chair of the technical program committee for ACM Multimedia in 2001. She has also served on various conference program committees. Dr. Zhang is a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER award and SUNY Chancellor's Research Recognition award.

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Jiang, D., Pei, J., Ramanathan, M. et al. Mining gene–sample–time microarray data: a coherent gene cluster discovery approach. Knowl Inf Syst 13, 305–335 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10115-006-0031-9

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