Pluripotent Stem Cells in Mice

Pluripotent stem cells are able to self-renew and to differentiate into all adult cell types. Many studies report data describing these cells and characterize them in molecular terms. Gene expression data of pluripotent and non-pluripotent cells from mouse were assembled. Machine learning was applied to classify samples into pluripotent and non-pluripotent cells. To identify minimal sets of best biomarkers, three methods were used: information gain, random forests, and genetic algorithm.