Gene Distance Function

A Gene Distance Function is a Distance Function for Two Genes.

• AKA: Gene Similarity Function.
• See: Sequence Clustering Task.

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References

2002

• (Enright et al., 2002) ⇒ A. J. Enright, S. Van Dongen1, and C. A. Ouzounis. (2002). “An Efficient Algorithm for Large-Scale Detection of Protein Families.” In: Nucleic Acids Research, 2002, 30(7).

2000

• (Brown et al., 2000) ⇒ Michael P. S. Brown, William Noble Grundy, David Lin, Nello Cristianini, Charles Walsh Sugnet, Terrence S. Furey, Manuel Ares Jr., and David Haussler. (2000). “Knowledge-based analysis of microarray gene expression data by using support vector machines.” In: PNAS, 97(1).
  • Refer to it as a Gene Similarity Function.

1998

• Michael B. Eisen, Paul T. Spellman, Patrick O. Brown, and David Botstein. (1998). “Cluster Analysis and Display of Genome-wide Expression Patterns.” In: PNAS, 95(25).
  • Refer to it as a Gene Similarity Function.

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