Comparison of clustering methods for investigation of genome-wide methylation array data

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 2, Issue DEC, 2011, Pages

  Clifford, Harry ^a   Wessely, Frank ^a   Pendurthi, Satish ^a,b   Emes, Richard D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERTAY DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Epigenetics; Epigenomics; Hierarchical; Illumina; Infinium; K means; K medoids

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866733913     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2011.00088     Document Type: Article

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