Interpreting multi-variate models with setPCA

Nordine Aouni, Luc Linders, David Robinson, Len Vandelaer, Jessica Wiezorek, Geetesh Gupta, Rachel Cavill

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Abstract

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and other multi-variate models are often used in the analysis of "omics" data. These models contain much information which is currently neither easily accessible nor interpretable. Here we present an algorithmic method which has been developed to integrate this information with existing databases of background knowledge, stored in the form of known sets (for instance genesets or pathways). To make this accessible we have produced a Graphical User Interface (GUI) in Matlab which allows the overlay of known set information onto the loadings plot and thus improves the interpretability of the multi-variate model. For each known set the optimal convex hull, covering a subset of elements from the known set, is found through a search algorithm and displayed. In this paper we discuss two main topics; the details of the search algorithm for the optimal convex hull for this problem and the GUI interface which is freely available for download for academic use.
Original languageEnglish
Number of pages24
Publication statusPublished - 17 Nov 2021

Keywords

  • q-bio.GN
  • cs.LG

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