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Application of independent component analysis to microarrays

Genome biologyPublished 24 October 2003Open access
Su‐In Lee, Serafim Batzoglou
Citations261
SJR quartileQ1
SJR score5.71
SNIP2.21
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TL;DR

ICA outperforms other leading methods, such as principal component analysis, k-means clustering and the Plaid model, in constructing functionally coherent clusters on microarray datasets from Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Caenorhabditis elegans and human.

Abstract

We apply linear and nonlinear independent component analysis (ICA) to project microarray data into statistically independent components that correspond to putative biological processes, and to cluster genes according to over- or under-expression in each component. We test the statistical significance of enrichment of gene annotations within clusters. ICA outperforms other leading methods, such as principal component analysis, k-means clustering and the Plaid model, in constructing functionally coherent clusters on microarray datasets from Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Caenorhabditis elegans and human.

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ChemistryComputer ScienceBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology