Classification of Short Kinetics by Shape

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Sieburg, Hans B. | Müller-Sieburg, Christa E.

Affiliations: Department of Mathematics, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA. E-mail: hsieburg@skcc.org | Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, 10835 Altman Row, San Diego, CA 92121, USA. E-mail: cmuller@skcc.org

Note: [] Ccorresponding author

Abstract: Discerning significant relationships in small data sets remains challenging. We introduce here the Hamming distance matrix and show that it is a quantitative classifier of similarities among short time-series. Its elements are derived by computing a modified form of the Hamming distance of pairs of symbol sequences obtained from the original data sets. The values from the Hamming distance matrix are then amenable to statistical analysis. Examples from stem cell research are presented to illustrate different aspects of the method. The approach is likely to have applications in many fields.

Keywords: symbolic data transformation, hamming distance, kinetics, hematopoietic stem cells, trading volume

Journal: In Silico Biology, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 209-217, 2004