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We implemented a heuristic variant of fuzzy k-means clustering that incorporated principal component analysis (PCA) and hierarchical clustering to analyze published yeast genomic expression data that followed the response of cells to different environments.
This is done by heuristic and/or exhaustive approaches.
Storm, Sonnhammer, and colleagues have recently developed similar ideas and procedures in a program called ORTHOSTRAPPER [ 44 45 ] . One distinction between the two approaches is that ORTHOSTRAPPER's orthology determination procedure does not employ a species tree for duplication inference; it uses a heuristic based on sequence similarity rather than a formally correct phylogenetic means of inferring orthology.
Overall, the p -values quoted should be considered as heuristic measures, useful as indicators of possible statistical significance, rather than as the results of formal inference.
This heuristic is currently utilized to characterize the expression level for a given gene.