DataBase and Data Mining Group

Microaray data analysis

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Description

Microarrays are a powerful tool to analyze thousands of gene expression values with a single experiment.

Several approaches have been developed to:

• detecting genes highly correlated to diseases
• selecting genes that exhibit a similar behavior under specific conditions
• building models to predict disease outcome based on genetic profiles
• inferring regulatory networks

Application

• study of class discovery algorithms (e.g., clustering, bi-clustering)
• identify robust gene markers by means of the integration of several classification methods
• analysis of gene expression values over the time on data derived from xenopatients