A Novel Clustering Method for Patient Stratification

• Published in: bioRxiv
• Main Authors: Liu, Hongfu, Zhao, Rui, Fang, Hongsheng, Cheng, Feixiong, Fu, Yun, Yang-Yu, Liu
• Format: Paper
• Language: English
• Published: Cold Spring Harbor Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 03.09.2016; Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
• Edition: 1.1
• Subjects: Bioinformatics; Cancer; Entropy; Gene expression; Genomes; Methods; Precision medicine; Utility functions

Patient stratification or disease subtyping is crucial for precision medicine and personalized treatment of complex diseases. The increasing availability of high-throughput molecular data provides a great opportunity for patient stratification. In particular, many clustering methods have been employ...