BMC Bioinformatics

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On reliable discovery of molecular signatures

Roland Nilsson1,2*, Johan Björkegren2 and Jesper Tegnér1,2

Author Affiliations

1 Computational Biology, Department of Physics, Linköping University, SE58183 Linköping, Sweden

2 Unit of Computational Medicine, King Gustav V Research Institute, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, SE17176 Stockholm, Sweden

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BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10:38 doi:10.1186/1471-2105-10-38

Published: 29 January 2009

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Proofs. This document provides proofs of uniqueness and optimality of the optimal signature S*.

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KFD and WV methods, and convergence with increasing sample size. This figure shows the results corresponding to Figure 4 for the Kernel Fisher Discriminant (A-B) and Weighted Voting classification methods (C-D). Also shown is the convergence of the bootstrap method for the SVM classifier (E), where power approaches 1 as sample size increases.

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Additional file 3:

Gene signature for the Alon data set. Excel file detailing the gene signature discovered by the bootstrap method using the SVM classifier. The corresponding signature from Recursive Features elimination is also provided for reference.

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Gene signature for the Golub data set. Excel file detailing the gene signature discovered by the bootstrap method using the SVM classifier. The corresponding signature from Recursive Features elimination is also provided for reference.

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Gene signature for the Singh data set. Excel file detailing the gene signature discovered by the bootstrap method using the SVM classifier. The corresponding signature from Recursive Features elimination is also provided for reference.

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