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Moreover, the analysis is also complicated by the loss of synchrony occurring in cell cycle experiments, which often results in additional background noise.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Results: To overcome these problems, here we propose the LEON (LEarning and OptimizatioN) algorithm, able to characterize the \u2018cyclicity degree\u2019 of a gene expression time profile using a two-step cascade procedure. The first step identifies a potentially cyclic behavior by means of a Support Vector Machine trained with a reliable set of positive and negative examples. The second step selects those genes having peak timing consistency along two cell cycles by means of a non-linear optimization technique using radial basis functions. To prove the effectiveness of our combined approach, we use recently published human fibroblasts cell cycle data and, performing in vivo experiments, we demonstrate that our computational strategy is able not only to confirm well-known cell cycle-regulated genes, but also to predict not yet identified ones.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Availability and implementation: All scripts for implementation can be obtained on request.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Contact: \u00a0lorenzo.farina@uniroma1.it or gurtner@ifo.it<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Supplementary information: \u00a0Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btt671","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2013,11,20]],"date-time":"2013-11-20T01:56:09Z","timestamp":1384912569000},"page":"228-233","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["Combining optimization and machine learning techniques for genome-wide prediction of human cell cycle-regulated genes"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"30","author":[{"given":"Marianna","family":"De Santis","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica, Automatica e Gestionale, Sapienza Universit\u00e0 di Roma, Rome, Italy and 2Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori Regina Elena, Dipartimento di Oncologia Sperimentale, Laboratorio di Oncogenesi Molecolare, Rome, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Francesco","family":"Rinaldi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica, Automatica e Gestionale, Sapienza Universit\u00e0 di Roma, Rome, Italy and 2Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori Regina Elena, Dipartimento di Oncologia Sperimentale, Laboratorio di Oncogenesi Molecolare, Rome, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Emmanuela","family":"Falcone","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica, Automatica e Gestionale, Sapienza Universit\u00e0 di Roma, Rome, Italy and 2Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori Regina Elena, Dipartimento di Oncologia Sperimentale, Laboratorio di Oncogenesi Molecolare, Rome, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Stefano","family":"Lucidi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica, Automatica e Gestionale, Sapienza Universit\u00e0 di Roma, Rome, Italy and 2Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori Regina Elena, Dipartimento di Oncologia Sperimentale, Laboratorio di Oncogenesi Molecolare, Rome, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Giulia","family":"Piaggio","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica, Automatica e Gestionale, Sapienza Universit\u00e0 di Roma, Rome, Italy and 2Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori Regina Elena, Dipartimento di Oncologia Sperimentale, Laboratorio di Oncogenesi Molecolare, Rome, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Aymone","family":"Gurtner","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica, Automatica e Gestionale, Sapienza Universit\u00e0 di Roma, Rome, Italy and 2Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori Regina Elena, Dipartimento di Oncologia Sperimentale, Laboratorio di Oncogenesi Molecolare, Rome, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Lorenzo","family":"Farina","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica, Automatica e Gestionale, Sapienza Universit\u00e0 di Roma, Rome, Italy and 2Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori Regina Elena, Dipartimento di Oncologia Sperimentale, Laboratorio di Oncogenesi Molecolare, Rome, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2013,11,18]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023012710384441100_btt671-B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"149","DOI":"10.1016\/j.mce.2010.10.007","article-title":"Cell cycle regulated expression of NCoR might control cyclic expression of androgen responsive genes in an immortalized prostate cell line","volume":"30","author":"Altintas","year":"2011","journal-title":"J. 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