Keywords
Scan method
Grimson method
Bioinformatics applications
Conglomerados temporales
método Scan
método de Grimson
aplicaciones bioinformáticas
How to Cite
Abstract
This paper presents a modification to the temporal disease clusters methods in order to apply them to other sciences. Particular specifications are shown in Scan and temporal Grimson techniques. The original data are transformed in a binary sequence: the value “one” represents the interest category and value “zero” corresponds to all other cases. Computational transformations of the algorithms are implemented
using Mathematica Package. Besides some interesting bioinformatics applications are presented.
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