HDG-select: A novel GUI based application for gene selection and classification in high dimensional datasets

PLoS One. 2021 Jan 28;16(1):e0246039. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0246039. eCollection 2021.

Abstract

The selection and classification of genes is essential for the identification of related genes to a specific disease. Developing a user-friendly application with combined statistical rigor and machine learning functionality to help the biomedical researchers and end users is of great importance. In this work, a novel stand-alone application, which is based on graphical user interface (GUI), is developed to perform the full functionality of gene selection and classification in high dimensional datasets. The so-called HDG-select application is validated on eleven high dimensional datasets of the format CSV and GEO soft. The proposed tool uses the efficient algorithm of combined filter-GBPSO-SVM and it was made freely available to users. It was found that the proposed HDG-select outperformed other tools reported in literature and presented a competitive performance, accessibility, and functionality.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Databases, Genetic*
  • Gene Expression Profiling
  • Humans
  • Machine Learning*
  • Software*
  • User-Computer Interface

Grants and funding

RH received a financial support from the Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS), Ministry of Education and Universiti Teknologi Malaysia under Vote No: RJ130000.7851.5F037.