General Information
| Description | Probing biological heterogeneity by sparse graphical models |
| Homepage | http://go.warwick.ac.uk/sachmukherjee/networkclustering |
Publications
Network clustering: probing biological heterogeneity by sparse graphical models
Motivation:
Networks and pathways are important in describing the collective biological function of molecular players such as genes or proteins. In many areas of biology, for example in cancer studies, available data may harbour undiscovered subtypes which differ in terms of network phenotype. That is, samples may be heterogeneous with respect to underlying molecular networks. This motivates a need for unsupervised methods capable of discovering such subtypes and elucidating the corresponding network structures.
Results:
We exploit recent results in sparse graphical model learning to put forward a ‘network clustering’ approach in which data are partitioned into subsets that show evidence of underlying, subset-level network structure. This allows us to simultaneously learn subset-specific networks and corresponding subset membership under challenging small-sample conditions. We illustrate this approach on synthetic and proteomic data.
Availability:
go.warwick.ac.uk/sachmukherjee/networkclustering
Contact:
s.n.mukherjee@warwick.ac.uk
Supplementary information:
Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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