Analyzing biological expression data based on decision tree induction [Elektronische Ressource] / von André Flöter

Institut fu¨r Informatik Institut de Recherche en InformatiqueWissensverarbeitung und Informationssysteme et Syste`mes Ale´atoiresAnalyzing biological expression data based ondecision tree inductionDissertationzur Erlangung des akademischen Grades“Doctor rerum naturalium”(Dr.rer.nat.)in der Wissenschaftsdisziplin Bioinformatikeingereicht an derMathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakulta¨tder Universita¨t PotsdamvonAndre´ Flo¨terPotsdam, den 27.05.2005AcknowledgementsBeside my compassionate fiance´e Sophie I would like to thank the following people for theirsupport,• Torsten Schaub and Jacques Nicolas, as the tutors of this thesis, for their invaluable adviceand vast help in coping with all kinds of technical, formal, and financial problems,• Joachim Selbig for the financial aid and his kind assistance in writing publications,• Joachim Kopka and Georg Leggewie for the biological data and their inexhaustible patiencewith my repetitive enquiries,• Philippe Besnard for his advice and the revision of all French text I had to produce,• Wolfgang Severin for his substantiated help whenever my JAVA interpreter was of a differentopinion than myself,• Matthias Mo¨hlig for his cooperation and scientific enthusiasm which motivated me to theend of my thesis,• and all the rest of the staff who has helped me during the last years.