Cluster Analysis of Gene Expression Data

Details Cluster Analysis of Gene Expression Data Cluster Analysis of Gene Expression Data

2002-06-17

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0206056v1

Physics

Biological Physics

18 pages, 6 figures

Scientific paper

The expression levels of many thousands of genes can be measured simultaneously by DNA microarrays (chips). This novel experimental tool has revolutionized research in molecular biology and generated considerable excitement. A typical experiment uses a few tens of such chips, each dedicated to a single sample - such as tissue extracted from a particular tumor. The results of such an experiment contain several hundred thousand numbers, that come in the form of a table, of several thousand rows (one for each gene) and 50 - 100 columns (one for each sample). We developed a clustering methodology to mine such data. In this review I provide a very basic introduction to the subject, aimed at a physics audience with no prior knowledge of either gene expression or clustering methods. I explain what genes are, what is gene expression and how it is measured by DNA chips. Next I explain what is meant by "clustering" and how we analyze the massive amounts of data from such experiments, and present results obtained from analysis of data obtained from colon cancer, brain tumors and breast cancer.

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