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Measuring similarities between gene expression profiles through new data transformations

Kyungpil Kim1,2 email, Shibo Zhang3 email, Keni Jiang3 email, Li Cai4 email, In-Beum Lee2 email, Lewis J Feldman3 email and Haiyan Huang1 email

Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Department of Chemical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Korea

Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Department of Biomedical Engineering, Rutgers University, USA

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BMC Bioinformatics 2007, 8:29doi:10.1186/1471-2105-8-29

Published: 27 January 2007

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One set of orthonormal eigenvectors. This PDF file contains one set of orthonormal eigenvectors referred in the Method section.

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Proof of the properties of the estimators under the restricted normal model. This PDF file shows that the Mathi in formula (2) is an unbiased estimator of θi and Math(t) in formula (2) is a consistent estimator of λ(t) under the proposed restricted normal model.

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The performance of new measures in a hierarchical clustering algorithm. This PDF file presents the application results of the hierarchical clustering algorithms with different measures implemented.

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The effects of the TransChisq data transformation in measuring pattern similarity. This PDF file presents a simple simulation study for the effects of the data transformation in TransChisq with a comparison to PoissonC.

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The guideline on the various parameters in the simulation dataset in Table 2. This PDF file presents the motivation and guideline for choosing the various parameters in the simulation dataset in Table 2.

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