Yarong Yang (Northern Illinois University)-Genetic Bayesian Network Modelling

Mathematics - Colloquium

Friday, February 26, 2010
11:00 AM-12:00 PM

Stratton Hall
203

ABSTRACT: Developing probabilistic models for modeling regulatory networks based on genome-wide high-throughput data is becoming more and more popular in biostatistics and bioinformatics. Bayesian network and Gaussian graphical models are the two most widely used methods. Our research is mainly focused on using Bayesian network models to discover gene networks based on their large-scale microarray expression data. We use mutual information to measure the dependency among genes. A three phase procedure is proposed with the outcome being a gene relation map. Our method is a modified version of Cheng et al (2002). Our proposed procedure is implemented using R. We also briefly discuss an idea of network based classification using our gene relation map.

Suggested Audiences: Adult, College

E-mail: ma-chair@wpi.edu

Last Modified: February 17, 2010 at 4:08 PM

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