FABIA: factor analysis for bicluster acquisition
Motivation: Biclustering of transcriptomic data groups genes and samples simultaneously. It is emerging as a standard tool for extracting knowledge from gene expression measurements. We propose a novel generative approach for biclustering called ‘FABIA: Factor Analysis for Bicluster Acquisition’. FA...
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Published in | Bioinformatics Vol. 26; no. 12; pp. 1520 - 1527 |
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Main Authors | , , , , , , , , , , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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Oxford
Oxford University Press
15.06.2010
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Summary: | Motivation: Biclustering of transcriptomic data groups genes and samples simultaneously. It is emerging as a standard tool for extracting knowledge from gene expression measurements. We propose a novel generative approach for biclustering called ‘FABIA: Factor Analysis for Bicluster Acquisition’. FABIA is based on a multiplicative model, which accounts for linear dependencies between gene expression and conditions, and also captures heavy-tailed distributions as observed in real-world transcriptomic data. The generative framework allows to utilize well-founded model selection methods and to apply Bayesian techniques. Results: On 100 simulated datasets with known true, artificially implanted biclusters, FABIA clearly outperformed all 11 competitors. On these datasets, FABIA was able to separate spurious biclusters from true biclusters by ranking biclusters according to their information content. FABIA was tested on three microarray datasets with known subclusters, where it was two times the best and once the second best method among the compared biclustering approaches. Availability: FABIA is available as an R package on Bioconductor (http://www.bioconductor.org). All datasets, results and software are available at http://www.bioinf.jku.at/software/fabia/fabia.html Contact: hochreit@bioinf.jku.at Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online. |
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Bibliography: | To whom correspondence should be addressed. ark:/67375/HXZ-G0P7KM01-G ArticleID:btq227 Associate Editor: Olga Troyanskaya istex:10DC1D6FBBB638CE51FDEDC1952A009376A66FF8 ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 |
ISSN: | 1367-4803 1460-2059 1367-4811 |
DOI: | 10.1093/bioinformatics/btq227 |