scholarly journals Unified Methods for Feature Selection in Large-Scale Genomic Studies with Censored Survival Outcomes

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren Spirko-Burns ◽  
Karthik Devarajan
Keyword(s):  
Feature Selection ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Proportional Hazards ◽  
Genomic Feature ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Prognostic Impact ◽  
Genomic Features ◽  
Special Cases ◽  
Information Divergence ◽  
Genomic Studies

AbstractOne of the major goals in large-scale genomic studies is to identify genes with a prognostic impact on time-to-event outcomes which provide insight into the disease’s process. With rapid developments in high-throughput genomic technologies in the past two decades, the scientific community is able to monitor the expression levels of tens of thousands of genes and proteins resulting in enormous data sets where the number of genomic features is far greater than the number of subjects. Methods based on univariate Cox regression are often used to select genomic features related to survival outcome; however, the Cox model assumes proportional hazards (PH), which is unlikely to hold for each feature. When applied to genomic features exhibiting some form of non-proportional hazards (NPH), these methods could lead to an under- or over-estimation of the effects. We propose a broad array of marginal screening techniques that aid in feature ranking and selection by accommodating various forms of NPH. First, we develop an approach based on Kullback-Leibler information divergence and the Yang-Prentice model that includes methods for the PH and proportional odds (PO) models as special cases. Next, we propose R2 indices for the PH and PO models that can be interpreted in terms of explained randomness. Lastly, we propose a generalized pseudo-R2 measure that includes PH, PO, crossing hazards and crossing odds models as special cases and can be interpreted as the percentage of separability between subjects experiencing the event and not experiencing the event according to feature expression. We evaluate the performance of our measures using extensive simulation studies and publicly available data sets in cancer genomics. We demonstrate that the proposed methods successfully address the issue of NPH in genomic feature selection and outperform existing methods. The proposed information divergence, R2 and pseudo-R2 measures were implemented in R (www.R-project.org) and code is available upon request.

scholarly journals Unified methods for feature selection in large-scale genomic studies with censored survival outcomes

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (11) ◽  
pp. 3409-3417
Author(s):  
Lauren Spirko-Burns ◽  
Karthik Devarajan
Keyword(s):  
Feature Selection ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Proportional Hazards ◽  
Cox Model ◽  
Supplementary Information ◽  
Genomic Feature ◽  
Prognostic Impact ◽  
Genomic Features ◽  
Special Cases ◽  
Genomic Studies

Abstract Motivation One of the major goals in large-scale genomic studies is to identify genes with a prognostic impact on time-to-event outcomes which provide insight into the disease process. With rapid developments in high-throughput genomic technologies in the past two decades, the scientific community is able to monitor the expression levels of tens of thousands of genes and proteins resulting in enormous datasets where the number of genomic features is far greater than the number of subjects. Methods based on univariate Cox regression are often used to select genomic features related to survival outcome; however, the Cox model assumes proportional hazards (PH), which is unlikely to hold for each feature. When applied to genomic features exhibiting some form of non-proportional hazards (NPH), these methods could lead to an under- or over-estimation of the effects. We propose a broad array of marginal screening techniques that aid in feature ranking and selection by accommodating various forms of NPH. First, we develop an approach based on Kullback–Leibler information divergence and the Yang–Prentice model that includes methods for the PH and proportional odds (PO) models as special cases. Next, we propose R2 measures for the PH and PO models that can be interpreted in terms of explained randomness. Lastly, we propose a generalized pseudo-R2 index that includes PH, PO, crossing hazards and crossing odds models as special cases and can be interpreted as the percentage of separability between subjects experiencing the event and not experiencing the event according to feature measurements. Results We evaluate the performance of our measures using extensive simulation studies and publicly available datasets in cancer genomics. We demonstrate that the proposed methods successfully address the issue of NPH in genomic feature selection and outperform existing methods. Availability and implementation R code for the proposed methods is available at github.com/lburns27/Feature-Selection. Contact [email protected] Supplementary information Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

scholarly journals COPAR: A ChIP-Seq Optimal Peak Analyzer

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Binhua Tang ◽  
Xihan Wang ◽  
Victor X. Jin
Keyword(s):  
High Throughput ◽  
Genomic Feature ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Sequencing Data ◽  
Genomic Features ◽  
Peak Alignment ◽  
Chip Sequencing ◽  
Quality Check ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
High Throughput Experiments

Sequencing data quality and peak alignment efficiency of ChIP-sequencing profiles are directly related to the reliability and reproducibility of NGS experiments. Till now, there is no tool specifically designed for optimal peak alignment estimation and quality-related genomic feature extraction for ChIP-sequencing profiles. We developed open-sourced COPAR, a user-friendly package, to statistically investigate, quantify, and visualize the optimal peak alignment and inherent genomic features using ChIP-seq data from NGS experiments. It provides a versatile perspective for biologists to perform quality-check for high-throughput experiments and optimize their experiment design. The package COPAR can process mapped ChIP-seq read file in BED format and output statistically sound results for multiple high-throughput experiments. Together with three public ChIP-seq data sets verified with the developed package, we have deposited COPAR on GitHub under a GNU GPL license.

Scalable and Flexible Unsupervised Feature Selection

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 517-537 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haojie Hu ◽  
Rong Wang ◽  
Xiaojun Yang ◽  
Feiping Nie
Keyword(s):  
Feature Selection ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Graph Laplacian ◽  
Linear Constraint ◽  
Data Matrix ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Unsupervised Feature Selection ◽  
Manifold Embedding ◽  
Public Data ◽  
Assignment Strategy

Recently, graph-based unsupervised feature selection algorithms (GUFS) have been shown to efficiently handle prevalent high-dimensional unlabeled data. One common drawback associated with existing graph-based approaches is that they tend to be time-consuming and in need of large storage, especially when faced with the increasing size of data. Research has started using anchors to accelerate graph-based learning model for feature selection, while the hard linear constraint between the data matrix and the lower-dimensional representation is usually overstrict in many applications. In this letter, we propose a flexible linearization model with anchor graph and [Formula: see text]-norm regularization, which can deal with large-scale data sets and improve the performance of the existing anchor-based method. In addition, the anchor-based graph Laplacian is constructed to characterize the manifold embedding structure by means of a parameter-free adaptive neighbor assignment strategy. An efficient iterative algorithm is developed to address the optimization problem, and we also prove the convergence of the algorithm. Experiments on several public data sets demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of the method we propose.

scholarly journals Galaxy spin direction distribution in HST and SDSS show similar large-scale asymmetry

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lior Shamir
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Spiral Galaxies ◽  
Hubble Space Telescope ◽  
Gravitational Interaction ◽  
Large Data ◽  
Sloan Digital Sky Survey ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Dipole Axis ◽  
Data Set ◽  
The Asymmetry

Abstract Several recent observations using large data sets of galaxies showed non-random distribution of the spin directions of spiral galaxies, even when the galaxies are too far from each other to have gravitational interaction. Here, a data set of $\sim8.7\cdot10^3$ spiral galaxies imaged by Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is used to test and profile a possible asymmetry between galaxy spin directions. The asymmetry between galaxies with opposite spin directions is compared to the asymmetry of galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The two data sets contain different galaxies at different redshift ranges, and each data set was annotated using a different annotation method. The results show that both data sets show a similar asymmetry in the COSMOS field, which is covered by both telescopes. Fitting the asymmetry of the galaxies to cosine dependence shows a dipole axis with probabilities of $\sim2.8\sigma$ and $\sim7.38\sigma$ in HST and SDSS, respectively. The most likely dipole axis identified in the HST galaxies is at $(\alpha=78^{\rm o},\delta=47^{\rm o})$ and is well within the $1\sigma$ error range compared to the location of the most likely dipole axis in the SDSS galaxies with $z>0.15$ , identified at $(\alpha=71^{\rm o},\delta=61^{\rm o})$ .

scholarly journals Multi-view feature selection for identifying gene markers: a diversified biological data driven approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (S18) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sudipta Acharya ◽  
Laizhong Cui ◽  
Yi Pan
Keyword(s):  
Gene Expression ◽  
Feature Selection ◽  
Gene Selection ◽  
Marker Gene ◽  
Biological Data ◽  
Protein Interaction Data ◽  
Marker Genes ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Gene Markers ◽  
Multi Objective

Abstract Background In recent years, to investigate challenging bioinformatics problems, the utilization of multiple genomic and proteomic sources has become immensely popular among researchers. One such issue is feature or gene selection and identifying relevant and non-redundant marker genes from high dimensional gene expression data sets. In that context, designing an efficient feature selection algorithm exploiting knowledge from multiple potential biological resources may be an effective way to understand the spectrum of cancer or other diseases with applications in specific epidemiology for a particular population. Results In the current article, we design the feature selection and marker gene detection as a multi-view multi-objective clustering problem. Regarding that, we propose an Unsupervised Multi-View Multi-Objective clustering-based gene selection approach called UMVMO-select. Three important resources of biological data (gene ontology, protein interaction data, protein sequence) along with gene expression values are collectively utilized to design two different views. UMVMO-select aims to reduce gene space without/minimally compromising the sample classification efficiency and determines relevant and non-redundant gene markers from three cancer gene expression benchmark data sets. Conclusion A thorough comparative analysis has been performed with five clustering and nine existing feature selection methods with respect to several internal and external validity metrics. Obtained results reveal the supremacy of the proposed method. Reported results are also validated through a proper biological significance test and heatmap plotting.

scholarly journals Accelerating In-Transit Co-Processing for Scientific Simulations Using Region-Based Data-Driven Analysis

Algorithms ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 154
Author(s):  
Marcus Walldén ◽  
Masao Okita ◽  
Fumihiko Ino ◽  
Dimitris Drikakis ◽  
Ioannis Kokkinakis
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Output Constraints ◽  
Data Driven Approach ◽  
Scientific Simulations ◽  
Multiple Metrics ◽  
In Transit ◽  
Multiple Compression ◽  
Large Scale Simulations

Increasing processing capabilities and input/output constraints of supercomputers have increased the use of co-processing approaches, i.e., visualizing and analyzing data sets of simulations on the fly. We present a method that evaluates the importance of different regions of simulation data and a data-driven approach that uses the proposed method to accelerate in-transit co-processing of large-scale simulations. We use the importance metrics to simultaneously employ multiple compression methods on different data regions to accelerate the in-transit co-processing. Our approach strives to adaptively compress data on the fly and uses load balancing to counteract memory imbalances. We demonstrate the method’s efficiency through a fluid mechanics application, a Richtmyer–Meshkov instability simulation, showing how to accelerate the in-transit co-processing of simulations. The results show that the proposed method expeditiously can identify regions of interest, even when using multiple metrics. Our approach achieved a speedup of 1.29× in a lossless scenario. The data decompression time was sped up by 2× compared to using a single compression method uniformly.

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