State of the Art of Fuzzy Methods for Gene Regulatory Networks Inference
Table 3
Comparison of FIS versus other hybrid methods.
Characteristics
Methods
FIS
AFEGRN
CGRN
Fuzzy clustering and BNs
FCMs
Automatic model parameters estimation, for example, number of clusters for fuzzy -means
No
Yes
Cross platform GRNs fusion
No
Yes
Eliminate the experimental and platform bias
No
Yes
Reduction of search space/complexity
No
No
Yes (better than traditional BNs)
Yes (better than BNs and ODEs)
NT means “not tested” (information not available): the corresponding method has not been tested against the specific characteristic mentioned in Table 3.