Evaluation of computer methods for biomarker discovery on computational grids

Background: Discovering biomarkers is a fundamental step to understand and deal with genetic diseases. Methods using classic Computer Science algorithms have been adapted in order to support processing large biological data sets, aiming to find useful information to understand causing conditions of...

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Autores principales: Tonini,Gustavo, Siqueira,Frank
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Publicado: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso 2013
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spelling oai:scielo:S0717-345820130005000132014-09-17Evaluation of computer methods for biomarker discovery on computational gridsTonini,GustavoSiqueira,Frank feature selection genetics parallel computing pattern detection performance Background: Discovering biomarkers is a fundamental step to understand and deal with genetic diseases. Methods using classic Computer Science algorithms have been adapted in order to support processing large biological data sets, aiming to find useful information to understand causing conditions of diseases such as cancer. Results: This paper describes some promising biomarker discovery methods based on several grid architectures. Each technique has some features that make it more suitable for a particular grid architecture. This matching depends on the parallelizing capabilities of the method and the resource availability in each processing/storage node. Conclusion: The study described in this paper analyzed the performance of biomarker discovery methods in different grid architectures. We find that some methods are more suited for certain grid architectures, resulting in significant performance improvement and producing more accurate results.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessPontificia Universidad Católica de ValparaísoElectronic Journal of Biotechnology v.16 n.5 20132013-09-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0717-34582013000500013en10.2225/vol16-issue5-fulltext-3
institution Scielo Chile
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language English
topic feature selection
genetics
parallel computing
pattern detection
performance
spellingShingle feature selection
genetics
parallel computing
pattern detection
performance
Tonini,Gustavo
Siqueira,Frank
Evaluation of computer methods for biomarker discovery on computational grids
description Background: Discovering biomarkers is a fundamental step to understand and deal with genetic diseases. Methods using classic Computer Science algorithms have been adapted in order to support processing large biological data sets, aiming to find useful information to understand causing conditions of diseases such as cancer. Results: This paper describes some promising biomarker discovery methods based on several grid architectures. Each technique has some features that make it more suitable for a particular grid architecture. This matching depends on the parallelizing capabilities of the method and the resource availability in each processing/storage node. Conclusion: The study described in this paper analyzed the performance of biomarker discovery methods in different grid architectures. We find that some methods are more suited for certain grid architectures, resulting in significant performance improvement and producing more accurate results.
author Tonini,Gustavo
Siqueira,Frank
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Siqueira,Frank
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title Evaluation of computer methods for biomarker discovery on computational grids
title_short Evaluation of computer methods for biomarker discovery on computational grids
title_full Evaluation of computer methods for biomarker discovery on computational grids
title_fullStr Evaluation of computer methods for biomarker discovery on computational grids
title_full_unstemmed Evaluation of computer methods for biomarker discovery on computational grids
title_sort evaluation of computer methods for biomarker discovery on computational grids
publisher Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso
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