Microarray experiments produce expression profiles measured under some experimental
conditions and are normally labeled on the basis of information such as, clinical
identification of tissue samples or expression of genes with respect to time. The
comparisons of different samples which render accurate information about over-expression/under-expression
of genes provide significant clues in understanding the mechanism of the underlying
phenomenon (for example, disease, pathways etc.). While microarray technology provides
a breakthrough in computational genomics but the knowledge discovery from microarray
is still at its infancy. The primary focus of this poster is two-way fuzzy clustering
of microarray data using adaptive subspace iteration (Fuzzy-ASI) based algorithm
for finding differentially expressed genes (DEGs) from two-sample microarray experiments.
The proposed Fuzzy-ASI assigns a relevance value to each gene associated with each
cluster using a progressive clustering framework. The functional categories are
ranked based on their potential to classify sample classes correctly. The high ranked
clusters are indicative of DEGs. Empirical analyses on simulated, 100 artificial
microarray datasets are used to quantify the results obtained using the Fuzzy-ASI
algorithm. Further analyses on different microarray cancer datasets revealed several
important genes that are relevant with various cancers. A three fold validation
is performed on the DEGs otained using the fuzzy-ASI based two-way clustering technique.
First, comparison of the DEGs is performed with the DEGs obtained by the original
authors. Secondly, the relevance of DEGs to the disease under study is assessed
by referring to the literature. Finally, a 3D star coordinate projection algorithm
(3D SCP) is used for visual validation. The visual results using principal component
analysis and heatmap are also provided to complement the 3D SCP results.
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