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kernel methods in bioinformatics

course outline

  • A biological introduction
  • Kernels: using linear machinery to solve nonlinear problems
  • Large margin classifiers: support vector machines
  • SVM tricks of the trade
  • Kernels for biological data
    • String kernels: inexact string matching kernels, local alignment kernels, all-subsequences kernel
    • Kernels for graphs and networks: classifying protein structures, predicting protein function
    • Kernels from generative models (Fisher kernels)
  • Data fusion with kernel methods
  • Multi-class classification
  • Feature selection for kernel methods: classifying gene expression data
  • Kernel methods for structured outputs
  • Proper design of machine learning experiments in bioinformatics