Critical limitations of consensus clustering in class discovery

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Şenbabaoǧlu, Yasin ^a,c   Michailidis, George ^b   Li, Jun Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPISTASIS; GENE;

ALGORITHMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; GENES; MODELS, GENETIC;

EID: 84906713390     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep06207     Document Type: Article

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