imodality index has been implemented in an R package named as
lIndex. The discrimination between unimodal and bimodal
mplemented using a mixture model (R package mclust) for the
ndex values.
e gap maximisation test approach
maximisation test approach (GM) is another simple approach for
ression bimodality discovery [Al Watban and Yang, 2016]. The
a is to model the density of delta expressions. It is believed that
nce of the bimodality within a gene expression vector may cause
fast decaying Gamma density of the delta expressions of the gene.
density can be well-estimated, the expression bimodality can thus
iscovered.
(a) (b) (c)
he delta expression density of three randomly selected genes from the letrozole
Only 58 letrozole treatment expressions were used for this density estimation.
ines stand for the fitted Gamma densities. (a) The gene ZMIZ2. (b) The gene
c) The gene ARHGAP2B.
e 6.32 shows the estimated densities as well as their Gamma
rves of the delta expressions of three randomly selected genes
data set in which the letrozole drug was used to treat breast cancer
6) [Miller, et al., 20017; Miller, et al., 2010]. It can be seen that
ZMIZ2 shows a sharp decaying Gamma density while the gene