TY - JOUR AU - Cheng, Chun-Pei AU - Liu, Yu-Cheng AU - Tsai, Yi-Lin AU - Tseng, Vincent S. PY - 2013 DA - 2013/09/24 TI - An efficient method for mining cross-timepoint gene regulation sequential patterns from time course gene expression datasets JO - BMC Bioinformatics SP - S3 VL - 14 IS - 12 AB - Observation of gene expression changes implying gene regulations using a repetitive experiment in time course has become more and more important. However, there is no effective method which can handle such kind of data. For instance, in a clinical/biological progression like inflammatory response or cancer formation, a great number of differentially expressed genes at different time points could be identified through a large-scale microarray approach. For each repetitive experiment with different samples, converting the microarray datasets into transactional databases with significant singleton genes at each time point would allow sequential patterns implying gene regulations to be identified. Although traditional sequential pattern mining methods have been successfully proposed and widely used in different interesting topics, like mining customer purchasing sequences from a transactional database, to our knowledge, the methods are not suitable for such biological dataset because every transaction in the converted database may contain too many items/genes. SN - 1471-2105 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-14-S12-S3 DO - 10.1186/1471-2105-14-S12-S3 ID - Cheng2013 ER -