Spring Seminar Series - January 23, 2003
University of Minnesota
School of Statistics
College of Liberal Arts

Dimension reduction methods in the analysis of genomic data

Francesca Chiaromonte
Statistics Department
Pennsylvania State University

Thursday, January 23, 2003
4:00 PM, 115 Ford Hall
Minneapolis, East Bank Campus
Social at 3:30 PM, 300 Ford Hall

Abstract

    Traditional dimension reduction methods such as principal components, and more modern approaches such as sufficient dimension reduction, can play a crucial role in the analysis of large data sets produced by DNA sequencing, DNA alignment, and global gene expression recording techniques (e.g. microarrays).

In this talk, I will briefly review inverse regression methodology for sufficient dimension reduction (Sliced Inverse Regression, Partial Sliced Inverse Regression) and present some applications that exemplify broad areas of recent bioinformatics research.

These include the discrimination of genomic regions performing biological functions based on DNA alignment information, the characterization of genes in terms of DNA sequence information, and the discrimination of cancer types based on global gene expression information.