A mutation profile for top-k patient search exploiting Gene-Ontology and orthogonal non-negative matrix factorization.
Journal:
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)
Published Date:
Nov 15, 2015
Abstract
MOTIVATION: As the quantity of genomic mutation data increases, the likelihood of finding patients with similar genomic profiles, for various disease inferences, increases. However, so does the difficulty in identifying them. Similarity search based on patient mutation profiles can solve various translational bioinformatics tasks, including prognostics and treatment efficacy predictions for better clinical decision making through large volume of data. However, this is a challenging problem due to heterogeneous and sparse characteristics of the mutation data as well as their high dimensionality.