Applying Particle Swarm Optimization for Enhanced Clustering of DNA Chip Data

Abstract

Experiments and research on genes have become very convenient by using DNA chips, which provide large amounts of data from various experiments. The data provided by the DNA chips could be represented as a two dimensional matrix, in which one axis represents genes and the other represents samples. By performing an efficient and good quality clustering on such data, the classification work which follows could be more efficient and accurate. In this paper, we use a bio-inspired algorithm called the Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm to propose an efficient clustering mechanism for large amounts of DNA chip data, and show through experimental results that the clustering technique using the PSO algorithm provides a faster yet good quality result compared with other existing clustering solutions.