Predictive modelling using pathway scores: robustness and significance of pathway collections

Abstract Background Transcriptomic data is often used to build statistical models which are predictive of a given phenotype, such as disease status. Genes work together in pathways and it is widely thought that pathway representations will be more robust to noise in the gene expression levels. We ai...

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Main Authors: Marcelo P. Segura-Lepe, Hector C. Keun, Timothy M. D. Ebbels
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-11-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12859-019-3163-0