Spectrometric differentiation of yeast strains using minimum volume increase and minimum direction change clustering criteria

Fachada, Nuno; Figueiredo, Mário A.T.; Lopes, Vitor V.; Martins, Rui C.; Rosa, Agostinho

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Authors

Fachada, Nuno

Figueiredo, Mário A.T.

Lopes, Vitor V.

Martins, Rui C.

Rosa, Agostinho

Abstract(s)

This paper proposes new clustering criteria for distinguishing Saccharomyces cerevisiae (yeast) strains using their spectrometric signature. These criteria are introduced in an agglomerative hierarchical clustering context, and consist of: (a) minimizing the total volume of clusters, as given by their respective convex hulls; and, (b) minimizing the global variance in cluster directionality. The method is deterministic and produces dendrograms, which are important features for microbiologists. A set of experiments, performed on yeast spectrometric data and on synthetic data, show the new approach outperforms several well-known clustering algorithms, including techniques commonly used for microorganism differentiation.

Keywords

Spectroscopy Yeasts Saccharomyces cerevisiae Clustering

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http://hdl.handle.net/10400.9/2651

Citation

Fachada, N.; Figueiredo, Mário A.T.; Lopes, Vitor V.; Martins, Rui C.; Rosa, A.C. - Spectrometric differentiation of yeast strains using minimum volume increase and minimum direction change clustering criteria. In: attern Recognition Letters, 2014, Vol. 45, p. 55-61