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We introduce a graph-theoretic approach to extract clusters and hierarchies in complex data-sets in an unsupervised and deterministic manner, without the use of any prior information. This is achieved by building topologically embedded…
Gene regulation is a series of processes that control gene expression and its extent. The connections among genes and their regulatory molecules, usually transcription factors, and a descriptive model of such connections, are known as gene…
The identification of essential genes/proteins is a critical step towards a better understanding of human biology and pathology. Computational approaches helped to mitigate experimental constraints by exploring machine learning (ML) methods…
Motivation: Identifying interaction clusters of large gene regulatory networks (GRNs) is critical for its further investigation, while this task is very challenging, attributed to data noise in experiment data, large scale of GRNs, and…
Gene regulation in Eukaryotes is mainly effected through transcription factors binding to rather short recognition motifs generally located upstream of the coding region. We present a novel computational method to identify regulatory…
In recent work we presented a new approach to the analysis of weighted networks, by providing a straightforward generalization of any network measure defined on unweighted networks. This approach is based on the translation of a weighted…
Motivation: Clustering techniques are routinely applied to identify patterns of co-expression in gene expression data. Co-regulation, and involvement of genes in similar cellular function, is subsequently inferred from the clusters which…
High-dimensional data of discrete and skewed nature is commonly encountered in high-throughput sequencing studies. Analyzing the network itself or the interplay between genes in this type of data continues to present many challenges. As…
Connectivity networks have recently become widely used in biology due to increasing amounts of information on the physical and functional links between individual proteins. This connectivity data provides valuable material for expanding our…
High throughput genome sequencing technologies such as RNA-Seq and Microarray have the potential to transform clinical decision making and biomedical research by enabling high-throughput measurements of the genome at a granular level.…
Current computational methods for exon-intron structure prediction from a cluster of transcript (EST, mRNA) data do not exhibit the time and space efficiency necessary to process large clusters of over than 20,000 ESTs and genes longer than…
Motivation: Usefulness of analysis derived from Affymetrix microarrays depends largely upon the reliability of files describing the correspondence between probe sets, genes and transcripts. In particular, in case a gene is targeted by two…
Background: Significance analysis plays a major role in identifying and ranking genes, transcription factor binding sites, DNA methylation regions, and other high-throughput features for association with disease. We propose a new approach,…
Motivation: Microarray experiments result in large scale data sets that require extensive mining and refining to extract useful information. We have been developing an efficient novel algorithm for nonmetric multidimensional scaling (nMDS)…
High-density DNA arrays, used to monitor gene expression at a genomic scale, have produced vast amounts of information which require the development of efficient computational methods to analyze them. The important first step is to extract…
Identifying disease-associated genes enables the development of precision medicine and the understanding of biological processes. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS), gene expression data, biological pathway analysis, and protein network…
Genes have specific functional roles, however, since they are dependent on each other, they can play a structural role within a network structure of their interactions. In this study, we analyze the structure of the gene interaction network…
We consider the problem of testing the significance of features in high-dimensional settings. In particular, we test for differentially-expressed genes in a microarray experiment. We wish to identify genes that are associated with some type…
In this work a new way to calculate the multivariate joint entropy is presented. This measure is the basis for a fast information-theoretic based evaluation of gene relevance in a Microarray Gene Expression data context. Its low complexity…
Precision medicine is a paradigm shift in healthcare relying heavily on genomics data. However, the complexity of biological interactions, the large number of genes as well as the lack of comparisons on the analysis of data, remain a…