| An application of great interest in microarray data analysis is the identification of a group of genes that show very similar patterns of expression in a data set, and are expected to represent groups of genes that perform common/similar functions, also known as functional modules. Although clustering offers a natural solution to this problem, it suffers from the limitation that it uses all the conditions to compare two genes, whereas only a subset of them may be relevant. Association analysis offers an alternative route for finding such groups of genes that may be co-expressed only over a subset of the experimental conditions used to prepare the data set. The techniques in this field attempt to find groups of data objects that contain coherent values... |
