title: A DSRPCL-SVM approach to informative gene analysis.
abstract: Microarray data based tumor diagnosis is a very interesting topic in bioinformatics. One of the key problems is the discovery and analysis of informative genes of a tumor. Although there are many elaborate approaches to this problem, it is still difficult to select a reasonable set of informative genes for tumor diagnosis only with microarray data. In this paper, we classify the genes expressed through microarray data into a number of clusters via the distance sensitive rival penalized competitive learning (DSRPCL) algorithm and then detect the informative gene cluster or set with the help of support vector machine (SVM). Moreover, the critical or powerful informative genes can be found through further classifications and detections on the obtained informative gene clusters. It is well demonstrated by experiments on the colon, leukemia, and breast cancer datasets that our proposed DSRPCL-SVM approach leads to a reasonable selection of informative genes for tumor diagnosis.
authors.affiliation: School of Mathematical Sciences and Laboratory of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics (LMAM), Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Xiong
authors.forename: Zhibin
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Cai
authors.forename: Jinwen
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ma
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000235:genetics; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000235:genetics; D019295:Computational Biology; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D005260:Female; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D007938:Leukemia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000235:genetics; D005810:Multigene Family; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000235:genetics*; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*