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In statistical thermodynamics, entropy (usual symbol S) is a measure of the number of microscopic configurations Ω that correspond to a thermodynamic system in a state specified by certain macroscopic variables. [Source: Wikipedia ]

miRge

Submitted by ChenLiang on Fri, 09/02/2016 - 21:59

Small RNA RNA-seq for microRNAs (miRNAs) is a rapidly developing field where opportunities still exist to create better bioinformatics tools to process these large datasets and generate new, useful analyses. We built miRge to be a fast, smart small RNA-seq solution to process samples in a highly multiplexed fashion. miRge employs a Bayesian alignment approach, whereby reads are sequentially aligned against customized mature miRNA, hairpin miRNA, noncoding RNA and mRNA sequence libraries.

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CoRAL

Submitted by ChenLiang on Fri, 09/02/2016 - 21:59

The surprising observation that virtually the entire human genome is transcribed means we know little about the function of many emerging classes of RNAs, except their astounding diversities. Traditional RNA function prediction methods rely on sequence or alignment information, which are limited in their abilities to classify the various collections of non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs). To address this, we developed Classification of RNAs by Analysis of Length (CoRAL), a machine learning-based approach for classification of RNA molecules.

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FREM

Submitted by ChenLiang on Mon, 01/09/2017 - 10:25

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are known as an important indicator of cancers. Presence of cancer can be detected by identifying the responsible miRNAs. A fuzzy-rough entropy measure (FREM) is developed which can rank the miRNAs and thereby identifying the relevant ones. FREM is used to determine the relevance of a miRNA in terms of separability between normal and cancer classes. While computing the FREM for a miRNA, fuzziness takes care of the overlapping between normal and cancer expressions, whereas rough lower approximation determines their class sizes.

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UFFizi

Submitted by ChenLiang on Fri, 09/02/2016 - 21:59

Feature selection is an important pre-processing task in the analysis of complex data. Selecting an appropriate subset of features can improve classification or clustering and lead to better understanding of the data. An important example is that of finding an informative group of genes out of thousands that appear in gene-expression analysis. Numerous supervised methods have been suggested but only a few unsupervised ones exist.

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ORCA

Submitted by ChenLiang on Fri, 09/02/2016 - 21:59

Often during the analysis of biological data, it is of importance to interpret the correlation structure that exists between variables. Such correlations may reveal patterns of co-regulation that are indicative of biochemical pathways or common mechanisms of response to a related set of treatments. However, analyses of correlations are usually conducted by either subjective interpretation of the univariate covariance matrix or by applying multivariate modeling techniques, which do not take prior biological knowledge into account.

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