Title |
Improving biomarker list stability by integration of biological knowledge in the learning process
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Published in |
BMC Bioinformatics, March 2012
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2105-13-s4-s22 |
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Authors |
Tiziana Sanavia, Fabio Aiolli, Giovanni Da San Martino, Andrea Bisognin, Barbara Di Camillo |
Abstract |
The identification of robust lists of molecular biomarkers related to a disease is a fundamental step for early diagnosis and treatment. However, methodologies for biomarker discovery using microarray data often provide results with limited overlap. It has been suggested that one reason for these inconsistencies may be that in complex diseases, such as cancer, multiple genes belonging to one or more physiological pathways are associated with the outcomes. Thus, a possible approach to improve list stability is to integrate biological information from genomic databases in the learning process; however, a comprehensive assessment based on different types of biological information is still lacking in the literature. In this work we have compared the effect of using different biological information in the learning process like functional annotations, protein-protein interactions and expression correlation among genes. |
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