METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CLUSTERING GENE EXPRESSION PROFILES BY USING GENE ONTOLOGY

摘要

Provided are a method and apparatus for clustering gene expression profiles by using the Gene Ontology (GO). The method includes: selecting one or more GO terms from a GO tree; receiving gene expression data sets; classifying the gene expression data sets into groups according to the GO terms; firstly clustering gene expression data belonging to each of the groups based on a similarity of the gene expression data; and secondly clustering the gene expression data sets by using the result of the first clustering as a seed.