Biology – Quantitative Biology – Quantitative Methods
Scientific paper
2007-11-15
Biology
Quantitative Biology
Quantitative Methods
22 pages, 4 figures
Scientific paper
Learning latent expression themes that best express complex patterns in a sample is a central problem in data mining and scientific research. For example, in computational biology we seek a set of salient gene expression themes that explain a biological process, extracting them from a large pool of gene expression profiles. In this paper, we introduce probabilistic models to learn such latent themes in an unsupervised fashion. Our models capture contagion, i.e., dependence among multiple occurrences of the same feature, using a hierarchical Bayesian scheme. Contagion is a convenient analytical formalism to characterize semantic themes underlying observed feature patterns, such as biological context. We present model variants tailored to different properties of biological data, and we outline a general variational inference scheme for approximate posterior inference. We validate our methods on both simulated data and realistic high-throughput gene expression profiles via SAGE. Our results show improved predictions of gene functions over existing methods based on stronger independence assumptions, and demonstrate feasibility of a promising hierarchical Bayesian formalism for soft clustering and latent aspects analysis.
Airoldi Edoardo M.
Fienberg Stephen E.
Xing Eric P.
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