Comparing the performance of biomedical clustering methods

Nature Methods

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1033-1038

  Wiwie, Christian ^a   Baumbach, Jan ^a,b,c   Röttger, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATICS   (Germany)

^c SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; MARKOV CLUSTERING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; AUTOMATION; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; QUALITY CONTROL;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; AUTOMATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84946487753     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15487105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.3583     Document Type: Article

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