IRMA-International.org: Creator of Knowledge
Information Resources Management Association
Advancing the Concepts & Practices of Information Resources Management in Modern Organizations

Kernel Methods in Genomics and Computational Biology

Kernel Methods in Genomics and Computational Biology
View Sample PDF
Author(s): Jean-Philippe Vert (Ecole des Mines de Paris, France)
Copyright: 2009
Pages: 20
Source title: Medical Informatics: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Joseph Tan (McMaster University, Canada)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-050-9.ch024

Purchase

View Kernel Methods in Genomics and Computational Biology on the publisher's website for pricing and purchasing information.

Abstract

Support vector machines and kernel methods are increasingly popular in genomics and computational biology due to their good performance in real-world applications and strong modularity that makes them suitable to a wide range of problems, from the classification of tumors to the automatic annotation of proteins. Their ability to work in a high dimension and process nonvectorial data, and the natural framework they provide to integrate heterogeneous data are particularly relevant to various problems arising in computational biology. In this chapter, we survey some of the most prominent applications published so far, highlighting the particular developments in kernel methods triggered by problems in biology, and mention a few promising research directions likely to expand in the future.

Related Content

David Edson Ribeiro, Valter Augusto de Freitas Barbosa, Clarisse Lins de Lima, Ricardo Emmanuel de Souza, Wellington Pinheiro dos Santos. © 2021. 15 pages.
Juliana Carneiro Gomes, Maíra Araújo de Santana, Clarisse Lins de Lima, Ricardo Emmanuel de Souza, Wellington Pinheiro dos Santos. © 2021. 12 pages.
Maíra Araújo de Santana, Jessiane Mônica Silva Pereira, Clarisse Lins de Lima, Maria Beatriz Jacinto de Almeida, José Filipe Silva de Andrade, Thifany Ketuli Silva de Souza, Rita de Cássia Fernandes de Lima, Wellington Pinheiro dos Santos. © 2021. 19 pages.
Jessiane Mônica Silva Pereira, Maíra Araújo de Santana, Clarisse Lins de Lima, Rita de Cássia Fernandes de Lima, Sidney Marlon Lopes de Lima, Wellington Pinheiro dos Santos. © 2021. 25 pages.
Adriel dos Santos Araujo, Roger Resmini, Maira Beatriz Hernandez Moran, Milena Henriques de Sousa Issa, Aura Conci. © 2021. 35 pages.
Abir Baâzaoui, Walid Barhoumi. © 2021. 21 pages.
Marcus Costa de Araújo, Luciete Alves Bezerra, Kamila Fernanda Ferreira da Cunha Queiroz, Nadja A. Espíndola, Ladjane Coelho dos Santos, Francisco George S. Santos, Rita de Cássia Fernandes de Lima. © 2021. 44 pages.
Body Bottom