NAME

Algorithm::Cluster - perl interface to Michiel Jan Laurens de Hoon's C clustering library

DESCRIPTION

This module is an interface to the C Clustering Library, a general purpose library implementing functions for hierarchical clustering (pairwise simple, complete, average, and centroid linkage), along with k-means and k-medians clustering, and 2D self-organizing maps. The library is distributed along with Cluster 3.0, an enhanced version of the famous Cluster program originally written by Michael Eisen while at Stanford University. The C clustering library was written by Michiel de Hoon.

EXAMPLES

See the scripts in the examples subdirectory of the package.

CHANGES

• Version 0.12

  First version.

TO DO

• Win32 package

  Create a PPM package for Win32 systems.

THANKS

Thanks to Michiel de Hoon for making the C Clustering library available, and for his kind assistance with this module. Thanks also to Michael Eisen, for creating the software packages Cluster and TreeView.

AUTHOR

John Nolan jpnolan@sonic.net 2003. A copyright statment is contained in the source code itself.

This module is a Perl wrapper for the C clustering library for cDNA microarray data, Copyright (C) 2002 Michiel Jan Laurens de Hoon.

See the source of Cluster.pm for a full copyright statement.