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Reordering Hierarchical Tree Based on Bilateral Symmetric Distance

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  • Minho Chae
  • James J Chen

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Background: In microarray data analysis, hierarchical clustering (HC) is often used to group samples or genes according to their gene expression profiles to study their associations. In a typical HC, nested clustering structures can be quickly identified in a tree. The relationship between objects is lost, however, because clusters rather than individual objects are compared. This results in a tree that is hard to interpret. Methodology/Principal Findings: This study proposes an ordering method, HC-SYM, which minimizes bilateral symmetric distance of two adjacent clusters in a tree so that similar objects in the clusters are located in the cluster boundaries. The performance of HC-SYM was evaluated by both supervised and unsupervised approaches and compared favourably with other ordering methods. Conclusions/Significance: The intuitive relationship between objects and flexibility of the HC-SYM method can be very helpful in the exploratory analysis of not only microarray data but also similar high-dimensional data.

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  • Minho Chae & James J Chen, 2011. "Reordering Hierarchical Tree Based on Bilateral Symmetric Distance," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 6(8), pages 1-7, August.
  • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0022546
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022546
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