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Differential expression analysis has long been used for this purpose; however, conventional methods perform poorly when applied to data with high within class heterogeneity.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Results: To address this challenge, we developed EMDomics, a new method that uses the Earth mover\u2019s distance to measure the overall difference between the distributions of a gene\u2019s expression in two classes of samples and uses permutations to obtain q-values for each gene. We applied EMDomics to the challenging problem of identifying genes associated with drug resistance in ovarian cancer. We also used simulated data to evaluate the performance of EMDomics, in terms of sensitivity and specificity for identifying differentially expressed gene in classes with high within class heterogeneity. In both the simulated and real biological data, EMDomics outperformed competing approaches for the identification of differentially expressed genes, and EMDomics was significantly more powerful than conventional methods for the identification of drug resistance-associated gene sets. EMDomics represents a new approach for the identification of genes differentially expressed between heterogeneous classes and has utility in a wide range of complex biomedical conditions in which sample classes show within class heterogeneity.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Availability and implementation: The R package is available at http:\/\/www.bioconductor.org\/packages\/release\/bioc\/html\/EMDomics.html<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Contact: \u00a0abeck2@bidmc.harvard.edu<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Supplementary information: \u00a0supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btv634","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,10,30]],"date-time":"2015-10-30T02:48:35Z","timestamp":1446173315000},"page":"533-541","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":69,"title":["EMDomics: a robust and powerful method for the identification of genes differentially expressed between heterogeneous classes"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"32","author":[{"given":"Sheida","family":"Nabavi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Center for Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA,"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Daniel","family":"Schmolze","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"2 Department of Pathology and Cancer Research Institute, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA,"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Mayinuer","family":"Maitituoheti","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"3 Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA and"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Sadhika","family":"Malladi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"2 Department of Pathology and Cancer Research Institute, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA,"},{"name":"4 The Harker School, San Jose, CA, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Andrew H.","family":"Beck","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"2 Department of Pathology and Cancer Research Institute, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA,"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2015,10,29]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023020110324621300_btv634-B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"161","DOI":"10.1046\/j.1365-2559.2000.00795.x","article-title":"Augmented expression of endothelin-1, endothelin-3 and the endothelin-B receptor in breast carcinoma","volume":"36","author":"Alanen","year":"2000","journal-title":"Histopathology"},{"key":"2023020110324621300_btv634-B2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"R106","DOI":"10.1186\/gb-2010-11-10-r106","article-title":"Differential expression analysis for sequence count data","volume":"11","author":"Anders","year":"2010","journal-title":"Genome Biol."},{"key":"2023020110324621300_btv634-B3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"772","DOI":"10.1016\/j.ygyno.2013.09.034","article-title":"The Wnt\/beta-catenin pathway in ovarian cancer: a review","volume":"131","author":"Arend","year":"2013","journal-title":"Gynecol. 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