Hierarchical clustering of animals in the low dose/6 hour group using SVM-derived classifiers

Two-way hierarchical clustering using Ward's minimum variance as the heuristic criteria and Euclidean distance as the similarity metric was performed on all of the animals in the low dose/6 hour group using the blood expression values for the 160 transcripts identified as compound classifiers for this dose/time group by a SVM algorithm. The degree of relatedness between each sample is represented by the dendrogram (hierarchical tree) presented in this figure, wherein the height of each branch represents the distance between the two objects being connected.<p><b>Copyright information:</b></p><p>Taken from "Gene expression response in target organ and whole blood varies as a function of target organ injury phenotype"</p><p>http://genomebiology.com/2008/9/6/R100</p><p>Genome Biology 2008;9(6):R100-R100.</p><p>Published online 20 Jun 2008</p><p>PMCID:PMC2481421.</p><p>