Class Session 10

Topics covered

• Distance metrics
• Hierarchical clustering
• Minimum spanning trees
• Neighbor joining trees

Slides

• Lecture 10 Slides

Hands-on Documents

• class10-clustering-trees.pdf

Data sets for hands on and homework

• cities.txt
• yeast-subnetwork-clean.txt

Assignments

• Assignment 10.1 -- See handout.

Readings

• Harding RM, Sokal RR. Classification of the European language families by genetic distance. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1988 Dec;85(23):9370-2. PubMed PMID: 3194429; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC282741.

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