TY - CONF T1 - Matching Spatial Regions with Combinations of Interacting Gene Expression Patterns T2 - Communications in Computer and Information Science Y1 - 2008 A1 - van Hemert, J. I. A1 - Baldock, R. A. ED - M. Elloumi ED - \emph ED - et al KW - biomedical KW - data mining KW - DGEMap KW - e-Science AB - The Edinburgh Mouse Atlas aims to capture in-situ gene expression patterns in a common spatial framework. In this study, we construct a grammar to define spatial regions by combinations of these patterns. Combinations are formed by applying operators to curated gene expression patterns from the atlas, thereby resembling gene interactions in a spatial context. The space of combinations is searched using an evolutionary algorithm with the objective of finding the best match to a given target pattern. We evaluate the method by testing its robustness and the statistical significance of the results it finds. JF - Communications in Computer and Information Science PB - Springer Verlag ER -