A review of feature selection techniques in bioinformatics.

@article{citeulike:1603667, abstract = {Feature selection techniques have become an apparent need in many bioinformatics applications. In addition to the large pool of techniques that have already been developed in the machine learning and data mining fields, specific applications in bioinformatics have led to a wealth of newly proposed techniques. In this paper, we make the interested reader aware of the possibilities of feature selection, providing a basic taxonomy of feature selection techniques, and discussing their use, variety and potential in a number of both common as well as upcoming bioinformatics applications. Companionwebsite: http://bioinformatics.psb.ugent.be/supplementary\_data/yvsae/fsreview.}, address = {Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, B-9052 Ghent, Belgium and Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Genomics group, Department of Molecular Genetics, Ghent University, B-9052 Ghent, Belgium.}, author = {Saeys, Yvan and Inza, I\~{n}aki and Larra\~{n}aga, Pedro }, citeulike-article-id = {1603667}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btm344}, issn = {1460-2059}, journal = {Bioinformatics}, keywords = {feature-selection, pl-related}, month = {August}, posted-at = {2007-11-09 20:39:12}, priority = {2}, title = {A review of feature selection techniques in bioinformatics.}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btm344}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1603667 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1603667 N2 - Feature selection techniques have become an apparent need in many bioinformatics applications. In addition to the large pool of techniques that have already been developed in the machine learning and data mining fields, specific applications in bioinformatics have led to a wealth of newly proposed techniques. In this paper, we make the interested reader aware of the possibilities of feature selection, providing a basic taxonomy of feature selection techniques, and discussing their use, variety and potential in a number of both common as well as upcoming bioinformatics applications. Companionwebsite: http://bioinformatics.psb.ugent.be/supplementary_data/yvsae/fsreview. JF - Bioinformatics SN - 1460-2059 AD - Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, B-9052 Ghent, Belgium and Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Genomics group, Department of Molecular Genetics, Ghent University, B-9052 Ghent, Belgium. TI - A review of feature selection techniques in bioinformatics. KW - feature-selection KW - pl-related AU - Saeys, Yvan AU - Inza, Iñaki AU - Larrañaga, Pedro PY - 2007/08/24/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btm344 ER -