A statistical framework for genomic data fusion.
BACKGROUND
During the past decade, the new focus on genomics has highlighted a particular challenge: to integrate the different views of the genome that are provided by various types of experimental data.


RESULTS
This paper describes a computational framework for integrating and drawing inferences from a collection of genome-wide measurements. Each dataset is represented via a kernel function, which defines generalized similarity relationships between pairs of entities, such as genes or proteins. The kernel representation is both flexible and efficient, and can be applied to many different types of data. Furthermore, kernel functions derived from different types of data can be combined in a straightforward fashion. Recent advances in the theory of kernel methods have provided efficient algorithms to perform such combinations in a way that minimizes a statistical loss function. These methods exploit semidefinite programming techniques to reduce the problem of finding optimizing kernel combinations to a convex optimization problem. Computational experiments performed using yeast genome-wide datasets, including amino acid sequences, hydropathy profiles, gene expression data and known protein-protein interactions, demonstrate the utility of this approach. A statistical learning algorithm trained from all of these data to recognize particular classes of proteins--membrane proteins and ribosomal proteins--performs significantly better than the same algorithm trained on any single type of data.


BACKGROUND
Supplementary data at http://noble.gs.washington.edu/proj/sdp-svm
Lanckriet
Gert R G
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Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley 94720, USA.
De Bie
Tijl
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Cristianini
Nello
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Jordan
Michael I
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Noble
William Stafford
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D000465:Algorithms; D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D002874:Chromosome Mapping / Q000379:methods*; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D030562:Databases, Protein; D005656:Fungal Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling / Q000379:methods*; D023281:Genomics / Q000379:methods; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D008957:Models, Genetic; D015233:Models, Statistical; D010363:Pattern Recognition, Automated; D011506:Proteins / Q000032:analysis / Q000737:chemistry / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics*; D012269:Ribosomal Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D020539:Sequence Analysis, Protein / Q000379:methods*; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D018511:Systems Integration
D005656:Fungal Proteins; D008565:Membrane Proteins; D011506:Proteins; D012269:Ribosomal Proteins