Generating Synthetic Genomic Data
Applying statistical methods is a large part of the work of a bioinformatician. Apart from some more classical techniques, machine learning algorithms are also regularly applied to clinical and biological data (notably, clustering techniques such as k-means). Some techniques such as artificial neural networks have recently found great success in areas such as image recognition and natural language processing. However, these techniques do not perform as well on small datasets with high dimensionality, a problem known as "the curse of dimensionality". [...]