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ArticleBriefings in bioinformatics2023

methylClass: an R package to construct DNA methylation-based classification models.

Yu Liu

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Article in Briefings in bioinformatics, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. DNA Methylation-Based Classification of Kidney Neoplasms.Modern pathology : an official journal of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, Inc · 2025
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  4. Methods in DNA methylation array dataset analysis: A review.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2024
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Yu LiuLaboratory of Pathology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8631-4347

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

DNA methylation profiling is a useful tool to increase the accuracy of a cancer diagnosis. However, a comprehensive R package specially for it is lacking. Hence, we developed the R package methylClass for methylation-based classification. Within it, we provide the eSVM (ensemble-based support vector machine) model to achieve much higher accuracy in methylation data classification than the popular random forest model and overcome the time-consuming problem of the traditional SVM. In addition, some novel feature selection methods are included in the package to improve the classification. Furthermore, because methylation data can be converted to other omics, such as copy number variation data, we also provide functions for multi-omics studies. The testing of this package on four datasets shows the accurate performance of our package, especially eSVM, which can be used in both methylation and multi-omics models and outperforms other methods in both cases. methylClass is available at: https://github.com/yuabrahamliu/methylClass.

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DNA Copy Number VariationsDNA MethylationProtein Processing, Post-TranslationalSupport Vector Machineensemblefeature selectionmethylationmulti-omicspan-cancersupport vector machine

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PMID38205965
PMCPMC10782803

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