• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.545-549
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• 2009

Microarray data sets could contain thousands of gene expression levels and have been considered as an important source from which meaningful patterns could be extracted for further analysis in biological studies. It is sometimes necessary to retrieve out specific genes or samples of analyst's interest in an effective way. This paper is concerned with a method to make use of fuzzy signature set in order to filter out genes or samples which satisfy complicated constraints as well as simple ones. Fuzzy signatures are an extension of vector valued fuzzy sets, in which elements of the vector are allowed to have a vector. Fuzzy signature sets are similar to fuzzy signatures except that their leaf elements are fuzzy sets defined on the interval [0,1]. This paper introduces an extension of fuzzy signature sets which specifies aggregation operators at each internal node and comparison operators for aggregation. It also shows how to use the extended fuzzy signature sets in microarray data retrieval and some examples of its usage.