Network-Guided Biomarker Discovery

@article{Azencott2016NetworkGuidedBD,
  title={Network-Guided Biomarker Discovery},
  author={Chlo{\'e}-Agathe Azencott},
  journal={ArXiv},
  year={2016},
  volume={abs/1607.08161}
}
Identifying measurable genetic indicators (or biomarkers) of a specific condition of a biological system is a key element of precision medicine. Indeed it allows to tailor diagnostic, prognostic and treatment choice to individual characteristics of a patient. In machine learning terms, biomarker discovery can be framed as a feature selection problem on whole-genome data sets. However, classical feature selection methods are usually underpowered to process these data sets, which contain orders… 
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