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SUBMITTER: Mar JC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3072547 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mar Jessica C JC Wells Christine A CA Quackenbush John J
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) 20110216 8
<h4>Motivation</h4>Unsupervised 'cluster' analysis is an invaluable tool for exploratory microarray data analysis, as it organizes the data into groups of genes or samples in which the elements share common patterns. Once the data are clustered, finding the optimal number of informative subgroups within a dataset is a problem that, while important for understanding the underlying phenotypes, is one for which there is no robust, widely accepted solution.<h4>Results</h4>To address this problem we ...[more]