Empirical Inference

Modeling and Visualizing Uncertainty in Gene Expression Clusters using Dirichlet Process Mixtures

2009

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Although the use of clustering methods has rapidly become one of the standard computational approaches in the literature of microarray gene expression data, little attention has been paid to uncertainty in the results obtained. Dirichlet process mixture models provide a non-parametric Bayesian alternative to the bootstrap approach to modeling uncertainty in gene expression clustering. Most previously published applications of Bayesian model based clustering methods have been to short time series data. In this paper we present a case study of the application of non-parametric Bayesian clustering methods to the clustering of high-dimensional non-time series gene expression data using full Gaussian covariances. We use the probability that two genes belong to the same cluster in a Dirichlet process mixture model as a measure of the similarity of these gene expression profiles. Conversely, this probability can be used to define a dissimilarity measure, which, for the purposes of visualization, can be input to one of the standard linkage algorithms used for hierarchical clustering. Biologically plausible results are obtained from the Rosetta compendium of expression profiles which extend previously published cluster analyses of this data.

Author(s): Rasmussen, CE. and de la Cruz, BJ. and Ghahramani, Z. and Wild, DL.
Journal: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Volume: 6
Number (issue): 4
Pages: 615-628
Year: 2009
Month: October
Day: 0

Department(s): Empirical Inference
Bibtex Type: Article (article)

Digital: 0
DOI: 10.1109/TCBB.2007.70269
Language: en
Organization: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
School: Biologische Kybernetik

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@article{4799,
  title = {Modeling and Visualizing Uncertainty in Gene Expression Clusters using Dirichlet Process Mixtures},
  author = {Rasmussen, CE. and de la Cruz, BJ. and Ghahramani, Z. and Wild, DL.},
  journal = {IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics},
  volume = {6},
  number = {4},
  pages = {615-628},
  organization = {Max-Planck-Gesellschaft},
  school = {Biologische Kybernetik},
  month = oct,
  year = {2009},
  doi = {10.1109/TCBB.2007.70269},
  month_numeric = {10}
}