Tag Archive: exploratory

Exploratory analysis of datasets obtained from GEO

Damiano October 22, 2015 2 Comments

Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) is an online public repository of functional genomics data. Information about GEO may be found at the following URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/info/faq.html. Briefly, GEO includes different types of datasets: GEO Profiles are curated datasets obtained from GEO DataSets….
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bioinformatics

bioconductor, colorhcplot, exploratory, GEO, GEOmetadb, GEOquery, pca, R

Colorful Hierarchical Clustering Dendrograms with R

Damiano September 30, 2015 0 Comments

Hierarchical clustering is a very effective method for exploratory data analysis and is aimed at building a hierarchy of clusters based on the similarity of the samples in a dataset. The idea behind hierarchical clustering is very intuitive. Let’s assume…
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bioinformatics

clustering, exploratory, hclust, hierarchical, R