HDG-select: A novel GUI based application for gene selection and classification in high dimensional datasets.

Journal: PloS one
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Abstract

The selection and classification of genes is essential for the identification of related genes to a specific disease. Developing a user-friendly application with combined statistical rigor and machine learning functionality to help the biomedical researchers and end users is of great importance. In this work, a novel stand-alone application, which is based on graphical user interface (GUI), is developed to perform the full functionality of gene selection and classification in high dimensional datasets. The so-called HDG-select application is validated on eleven high dimensional datasets of the format CSV and GEO soft. The proposed tool uses the efficient algorithm of combined filter-GBPSO-SVM and it was made freely available to users. It was found that the proposed HDG-select outperformed other tools reported in literature and presented a competitive performance, accessibility, and functionality.

Authors

  • Shilan S Hameed
    Computer Systems and Networks (CSN), Malaysia-Japan International Institute of Technology (MJIIT), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
  • Rohayanti Hassan
  • Wan Haslina Hassan
    Malaysia-Japan International Institute of Technology, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia.
  • Fahmi F Muhammadsharif
    Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Health, Koya University, Koya, Kurdistan Region-F.R., Iraq.
  • Liza Abdul Latiff
    Fakulti Teknologi & Informatik Razak, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia.