ValWorkBench: An open source Java library for cluster validation, with applications to microarray data analysis. Issue 2 (February 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Giancarlo, R.; Scaturro, D.; Utro, F.
• Is Part Of: Computer methods and programs in biomedicine. Volume 118:Issue 2(2015)
• Page Start: 207
• Page End: 217
• Publication Date: 2015-02
• Subjects: Medicine -- Computer programs -- Periodicals; Biology -- Computer programs -- Periodicals; Computers -- Periodicals; Medicine -- Periodicals; Médecine -- Logiciels -- Périodiques; Biologie -- Logiciels -- Périodiques; Biology -- Computer programs; Medicine -- Computer programs; Periodicals; Electronic journals; 610.28
• DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2014.12.004
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0169-2607

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="author-highlights" id="abs0005"> <title> <x xml:space="preserve">Abstract</x> </title> <sec> <title id="sect0005">Highlights</title> <p id="spar0005"> <list id="list0015"> <list-item id="listitem0040"> <label></label> <p id="p0005">Cluster validation for microarray data analysis is an essential task in bioinformatics and biomedicine that is not receiving enough attention.</p> </list-item> <list-item id="listitem0045"> <label></label> <p id="p0010">The state of the art does not offer software systems able to help the development of much needed new measures.</p> </list-item> <list-item id="listitem0050"> <label></label> <p id="p0015">We propose ValWorkBench and describe its internal modules and classes, in order to provide the much needed software platform for the development and testing of new validation measures as well as clustering algorithms.</p> </list-item> <list-item id="listitem0055"> <label></label> <p id="p0020">From the programmer point of view, no other platform in the same area offers what ValWorkBench provides.</p> </list-item> <list-item id="listitem0060"> <label></label> <p id="p0025">From the user point of view, the measures contained in it have been the object of, rigorous scientific studies, i.e., in BMC Bioinformatics 9 (2008) 462; Algorithms for Molecular Biology 6 (2011) 1; Natural Computing, pages 2014 (in press).</p> </list-item> </list> </p> </sec> </abstract>