Table 1 Application scenarios for biclustering

Biomedical

Clinical [14, 15]

Groups of patients whose health records are correlated

Gene expression [5, 16]

Groups of genes involved in functional processes and pathways

Biological networks [17, 18]

Modules of genes and proteins with local interaction

Physiological [4, 12]

Modules of sliding partitions of the signal across a subset of stimuli responses

Other

Recommendation systems [9, 19]

Groups of users who share the same rating patterns and behavioral patterns

Text mining [11, 20]

Groups of documents with similar sets of words or topics

Climate data [21, 22]

Regions with similar meteorological patterns

Social sciences [23, 24]

Regions with similar social vulnerabilities

Resources utilization [13, 25]

Regions with similar water or energy consumption patterns