A robust and accurate method for feature selection and prioritization from multi-class OMICs data

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Fortino, Vittorio ^a   Kinaret, Pia ^a   Fyhrquist, Nanna ^a   Alenius, Harri ^a   Greco, Dario ^a  

^a FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; COMPUTER PREDICTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEATURE SELECTION AND PRIORITIZATION FRAMEWORK; FUZZY LOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC SELECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OMICS DATA ANALYSIS; RANDOM FOREST; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; FUZZY LOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS;

EID: 84907452523     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0107801     Document Type: Article

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