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BMC BIOINFORMATICS
Volume 10, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-10-242
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- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/F027400/1]
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/F005806/1]
- EU Marie-Curie IRG Fellowship [46444]
- BBSRC [BBS/E/H/00KD0273, BB/F005806/1, BB/F005903/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- EPSRC [EP/F027400/1, EP/F028628/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/F005903/1, BB/F005806/1, BBS/E/H/00KD0273] Funding Source: researchfish
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/F028628/1, EP/F027400/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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Background: Although the use of clustering methods has rapidly become one of the standard computational approaches in the literature of microarray gene expression data analysis, little attention has been paid to uncertainty in the results obtained. Results: We present an R/Bioconductor port of a fast novel algorithm for Bayesian agglomerative hierarchical clustering and demonstrate its use in clustering gene expression microarray data. The method performs bottom-up hierarchical clustering, using a Dirichlet Process (infinite mixture) to model uncertainty in the data and Bayesian model selection to decide at each step which clusters to merge. Conclusion: Biologically plausible results are presented from a well studied data set: expression profiles of A. thaliana subjected to a variety of biotic and abiotic stresses. Our method avoids several limitations of traditional methods, for example how many clusters there should be and how to choose a principled distance metric.
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