Francisco Azuaje

GRIP: A web-based system for constructing Gold Standard datasets for protein-protein interaction prediction (2009)

Browne, Fiona, Wang, Haiying, Zheng, Huiru, Azuaje, Francisco

Abstract Background Information about protein interaction networks is fundamental to understanding protein function and cellular processes. Interaction patterns among proteins can suggest new drug...

Computational biology for cardiovascular biomarker discovery (2009)

Azuaje, Francisco, Devaux, Yvan, Wagner, Daniel

Computational biology is essential in the process of translating biological knowledge into clinical practice, as well as in the understanding of biological phenomena based on the resources and...

Permutation – based statistical tests for multiple hypotheses (2008)

Camargo, Anyela, Azuaje, Francisco, Wang, Haiying, Zheng, Huiru

Abstract Background Genomics and proteomics analyses regularly involve the simultaneous test of hundreds of hypotheses, either on numerical or categorical data. To correct for the occurrence of false...

Clustering-based approaches to SAGE data mining (2008)

Wang, Haiying, Zheng, Huiru, Azuaje, Francisco

Abstract Serial analysis of gene expression (SAGE) is one of the most powerful tools for global gene expression profiling. It has led to several biological discoveries and biomedical applications,...

Ontology-driven (2008)

Francisco Azuaje, Haiying Wang, Olivier Bodenreider

similarity approaches to supporting gene functional assessment

Self-Adaptive Neural Networks Based on a Poisson Approach for Knowledge Discovery (2008)

Haiying Wang, Huiru Zheng, Francisco Azuaje

The ability to learn from data and to improve its performance through incremental learning makes self-adaptive neural networks (SANNs) a powerful tool to support knowledge discovery. However, the...

Ontology-Based Similarity: An Assessment of Quantitative Relationships (2008)

Haiying Wang, Francisco Azuaje, Olivier Bodenreider, Joaquín Dopazo

the S. cerivisiae Genome Database were analyzed to calculate functional similarity of gene products. Three methods for measuring similarity (including a distance-based approach) were implemented....

Proceedings of the IEEE Fourth Symposium on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE-2004) 2004:317-324. Incorporating Ontology-Driven Similarity Knowledge into Functional Genomics: An Exploratory Study (2008)

Francisco Azuaje, Olivier Bodenreider

This research explores the feasibility of semantic similarity approaches to supporting predictive tasks in functional genomics. It aims to establish potential relationships between ontology-based...

Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS’2005) 2005:389-394. An Ontology-Driven Clustering Method for Supporting Gene Expression Analysis (2008)

Haiying Wang, Francisco Azuaje, Olivier Bodenreider

The Gene Ontology (GO) is an important knowledge resource for biologists and bioinformaticians. This paper explores the integration of similarity information derived from GO into clustering-based...

BioData Mining BioMed Central Review Clustering-based approaches to SAGE data mining (2008)

Haiying Wang, Huiru Zheng, Francisco Azuaje

© 2008 Wang et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License

A Computational Evolutionary Approach to Evolving Game Strategy and Cooperation (2007)

Francisco Azuaje

Abstract-- This paper describes an approach to the co-evolution of competing virtual creatures. Pairs of individuals enter one-on-one contests in which they contend to establish contact with a common...

BMC Bioinformatics BioMed Central (2007)

Francisco Azuaje, Francisco Azuaje

Research article Genomic data sampling and its effect on classification performance assessment

Gene Expression Patterns and Cancer Classification: A Self-Adaptive and Incremental Neural Approach (2007)

Francisco Azuaje

The automated interpretation of data originating from the human genome may play a crucial role in cancer treatment. Here a new computational approach to the discovery and analysis of gene expression...

discovery of gene function and classes (2007)

Francisco Azuaje

A computational neural approach to support the

An assessment of recently published gene expression data analyses: reporting experimental design and statistical factors (2006)

Jafari, Peyman, Azuaje, Francisco

Abstract Background The analysis of large-scale gene expression data is a fundamental approach to functional genomics and the identification of potential drug targets. Results derived from such...

Machine learning approaches to supporting the identification of photoreceptor-enriched genes based on expression data (2006)

Wang, Haiying, Zheng, Huiru, Simpson, David, Azuaje, Francisco

Abstract Background Retinal photoreceptors are highly specialised cells, which detect light and are central to mammalian vision. Many retinal diseases occur as a result of inherited dysfunction of...

Advancing Post-Genome Data and System Integration Through Machine Learning (2006)

Francisco Azuaje

Research on biological data integration has traditionally focused on the development of systems for the maintenance and interconnection of databases. In the next few years, public and private...

An assessment of machine and statistical learning approaches to inferring networks of protein-protein interactions (2006)

Browne, Fiona, Wang, Haiying, Zheng, Huiru, Azuaje, Francisco

Protein-protein interactions (PPI) play a key role in many biological systems. Over the past few years, an explosion in availability of functional biological data obtained from high-throughput...

Predictive integration of Gene Ontology-driven similarity and functional interactions (2006)

Francisco Azuaje, Haiying Wang, Huiru Zheng, Olivier Bodenreider, Alban Chesneau

There is a need to develop methods to automatically incorporate prior knowledge to support the prediction and validation of novel functional associations. One such important source is represented by...

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making (2006)

Biomed Central, Peyman Jafari, Francisco Azuaje

Research article An assessment of recently published gene expression data analyses: reporting experimental design and statistical factors

Non-linear mapping for exploratory data analysis in functional genomics (2005)

Azuaje, Francisco, Wang, Haiying, Chesneau, Alban

Abstract Background Several supervised and unsupervised learning tools are available to classify functional genomics data. However, relatively less attention has been given to exploratory,...

BMC Bioinformatics. (2005)

Cc Olivier Bodenreider, F. Azuaje, O. Bodenreider, H. Wang, H. Zheng, ...

During this visit we have expanded our investigations on the application of Gene Ontology-driven similarity (GOS) to functional genomics. We focused on two specific problems: • Study of significant...

A knowledge-driven approach to cluster validity assessment (2005)

Bolshakova, Nadia, Azuaje, Francisco, Cunningham, Pádraig

Summary: This paper presents an approach to assessing cluster validity based on similarity knowledge extracted from the Gene Ontology. Availability: The program is freely available for non-profit use...

A knowledge-driven approach to cluster validity assessment (2005)

Bolshakova, Nadia, Azuaje, Francisco, Cunningham, Pádraig

Summary: This paper presents an approach to assessing cluster validity based on similarity knowledge extracted from the Gene Ontology. Availability: The program is freely available for non-profit use...

An integrated tool for microarray data clustering and cluster validity assessment (2005)

Bolshakova, Nadia, Azuaje, Francisco, Cunningham, Pádraig

Summary: In this paper we present a data mining system, which allows the application of different clustering and cluster validity algorithms for DNA microarray data. This tool may improve the quality...

BIOINFORMATICS ORIGINAL PAPER (2004)

Nadia Bolshakova, Francisco Azuaje, Pádraig Cunningham

doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/bti190 An integrated tool for microarray data clustering and cluster validity assessment

Estimating the Number of Clusters in DNA Microarray Data (2004)

Nadia Bolshakova, Francisco Azuaje

ds may support the prediction of the optimal partition and computational diagnosis. A weighed voting technique was used to improve the prediction of the number of clusters based on different data...

An integrated tool for microarray data clustering and cluster validity assessment (2004)

Bolshakova, Nadia, Azuaje, Francisco, Cunningham, Pádraig

Summary: In this paper we present a data mining system, which allows the application of different clustering and cluster validity algorithms for DNA microarray data. This tool may improve the quality...

An integrated tool for microarray data clustering and cluster validity assessment (2004)

Bolshakova, Nadia, Azuaje, Francisco, Cunningham, Pádraig

Summary: In this paper we present a data mining system, which allows the application of different clustering and cluster validity algorithms for DNA microarray data. This tool may improve the quality...

Machaon CVE: Cluster validation for gene expression data (2003)

Bolshakova, Nadia, Azuaje, Francisco

This paper presents a cluster validation tool for gene expression data. Machaon-CVE (Clustering and Validation Environment) system aims to partition samples or genes into groups characterised by...

A markup language for electrocardiogram data acquisition and analysis (ecgML) (2003)

Wang, Haiying, Azuaje, Francisco, Jung, Benjamin, Black, Norman

Abstract Background The storage and distribution of electrocardiogram data is based on different formats. There is a need to promote the development of standards for their exchange and analysis. Such...

Genomic data sampling and its effect on classification performance assessment (2003)

Azuaje, Francisco

Abstract Background Supervised classification is fundamental in bioinformatics. Machine learning models, such as neural networks, have been applied to discover genes and expression patterns. This...

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making (2003)

Haiying Wang, Francisco Azuaje, Benjamin Jung, Norman Black

A markup language for electrocardiogram data acquisition and analysis (ecgML)

Machaon CVE: cluster validation for gene expression data (2003)

Bolshakova, Nadia, Azuaje, Francisco

Summary: This paper presents a cluster validation tool for gene expression data. Machaon CVE (Clustering and Validation Environment) system aims to partition samples or genes into groups...

Clustering-based approaches to discovering and visualising microarray data patterns (2003)

Azuaje, Francisco

This article focuses on clustering techniques for the analysis of microarray data and discusses contributions and applications for the implementation of intelligent diagnostic systems and therapy...

Discovering Genome Expression Patterns With Self-Organizing Neural Networks (2002)

Azuaje, Francisco

Azuaje F. “Discovering Genome Expression Patterns With Self-Organizing Neural Networks”, in Understanding and Using Microarray Analysis Techniques: A Practical Guide, Berrar D, Dubitzky W and...

Discovering genome expression patterns with self-organizing neural networks (2002)

Azuaje, Francisco

Originally published: Azuaje F. “Discovering Genome Expression Patterns With Self-Organizing Neural Networks”, in Understanding and Using Microarray Analysis Techniques: A Practical Guide, Berrar...

Azuaje, “Solutions to Instability Problems with Sequential Wrapper-based Approaches to Feature Selection”, submitted to The (2002)

Kevin Dunne, Padraig Cunningham, Francisco Azuaje

It is generally accepted that Wrapper approaches will outperform Filter-based approaches to feature selection, particularly in situations where an adequate amount of data is available. What is often...

Clustering genome expression data: design and evaluation principles (2002)

Francisco Azuaje, Nadia Bolshakova

The analysis of expression data is based on the idea that genes that are involved in a particular pathway, or respond to a common environmental stimulus, should be co-regulated and therefore should...

Discovering Genome Expression Patterns With Self-Organizing Neural Networks”, in Understanding and Using Microarray Analysis Techniques: A Practical Guide (2002)

Francisco Azuaje

Self-organizing neural networks represent a family of useful clusteringbased classification methods in several application domains. One such technique is the Kohonen Self-Organizing Feature Map (SOM)...

Advancing Post-Genome Data and System Integration through Machine Learning (2002)

Francisco Azuaje

Research on biological data integration has traditionally focused on the development of systems for the maintenance and interconnection of databases. In the next few years, public and private...

Making Genome Expression Data Meaningful: Prediction and discovery of classes of cancer through a connectionist learning approach, to be published (2000)

Francisco Azuaje

With more than 30 years of experimental research, there have been no generic models to classify tumours and identify new types of cancer. Similarly, advances in molecular classification of tumours...

Advancing Post-Genome Data and System Integration Through Machine Learning

Azuaje, Francisco

Research on biological data integration has traditionally focused on the development of systems for the maintenance and interconnection of databases. In the next few years, public and private...

Clustering-based approaches to SAGE data mining

Wang, Haiying, Zheng, Huiru, Azuaje, Francisco

Serial analysis of gene expression (SAGE) is one of the most powerful tools for global gene expression profiling. It has led to several biological discoveries and biomedical applications, such as the...

Innovative methods in assessing political risk for business internationalization

Rios-Morales, Ruth, Gamberger, Dragan, Smuc, Tom, Azuaje, Francisco

Political risk assessment, together with portfolio analysis, has become an important part of international business investment decision making. In this paper, by using different knowledge discovery...