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- Title
Methods for assessing reproducibility of clustering patterns observed in analyses of microarray data.
- Authors
McShane, Lisa M; Radmacher, Michael D; Freidlin, Boris; Yu, Ren; Li, Ming-Chung; Simon, Richard
- Abstract
Recent technological advances such as cDNA microarray technology have made it possible to simultaneously interrogate thousands of genes in a biological specimen. A cDNA microarray experiment produces a gene expression 'profile'. Often interest lies in discovering novel subgroupings, or 'clusters', of specimens based on their profiles, for example identification of new tumor taxonomies. Cluster analysis techniques such as hierarchical clustering and self-organizing maps have frequently been used for investigating structure in microarray data. However, clustering algorithms always detect clusters, even on random data, and it is easy to misinterpret the results without some objective measure of the reproducibility of the clusters.
- Publication
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2002, Vol 18, Issue 11, p1462
- ISSN
1367-4803
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1093/bioinformatics/18.11.1462