Title |
Independent Principal Component Analysis for biologically meaningful dimension reduction of large biological data sets
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Published in |
BMC Bioinformatics, February 2012
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2105-13-24 |
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Authors |
Fangzhou Yao, Jeff Coquery, Kim-Anh Lê Cao |
Abstract |
A key question when analyzing high throughput data is whether the information provided by the measured biological entities (gene, metabolite expression for example) is related to the experimental conditions, or, rather, to some interfering signals, such as experimental bias or artefacts. Visualization tools are therefore useful to better understand the underlying structure of the data in a 'blind' (unsupervised) way. A well-established technique to do so is Principal Component Analysis (PCA). PCA is particularly powerful if the biological question is related to the highest variance. Independent Component Analysis (ICA) has been proposed as an alternative to PCA as it optimizes an independence condition to give more meaningful components. However, neither PCA nor ICA can overcome both the high dimensionality and noisy characteristics of biological data. |
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