Modeling Large S-System using Clustering and Genetic Algorithm

When we want to find out the regulatory relationships between genes from gene expression data, dimensionality is one of the big problem. In general, the size of search space in modeling the regulatory relationships grows in O(n$^2$) while the number of genes is increasing. However, hopefully it can be reduced to O(kn) with selected k by applying divide and conquer heuristics which depend on some assumptions about genetic network. In this paper, we approach the modeling problem in divide-and-conquer manner. We applied clustering to make the problem into small sub-problems, then hierarchical model process is applied to those small sub-problems.