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Special Colloquia, Department of Statistics

Friday, February 21, 2003 in REC 112
4:30 PM

Mr. Jongwoo Song
University of Chicago

will speak on

Clustering Analysis in Gene Profile Data

Abstract


Microarrays are part of a new class of biotechnologies which allow the monitoring of expression levels for thousands of genes simultaneously. Gene profile data come from experiments that investigate the behavior of genes over several time points. Biologists are interested in these gene expression profiles because it is believed that genes in the same functional pathway have similar profiles of gene expression.

In the microarray experiments, most of the unsupervised learning processes involve three steps: standardization, defining a dissimilarity measure, and applying a clustering algorithm. We will discuss the issues involved in these steps, and we will propose new methods. A new distance measure that takes into account the time order and the time distance between experiments will be introduced. A clustering algorithm that finds clusters sequentially and that allows for sporadic objects will be discussed.


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