MINE_col1_vs_others

This software computes automatically the Maximal Information-based Nonparametric Exploration (MINE) association coefficient between column 1 versus the other columns. Computation is based on the package minerva. (see also Mine ncol vs ncol)

Detecting Novel Associations in Large Data Sets, David N. Reshef, et al., Science 334, 1518 (2011);

Manual :

1- if not already installed, install Perl free programming language

2- install R programming language.

3- install minerva

4- install GNU parallel (GNU Linux only)

5- unzip the software and edit "conf.txt" to tune CPU load

6- copy data tsv files in the “data” directory :

DATA in columns

- first line : columns names

- first column : row names

next columns are the values, with separator TAB.

9- execute the software by the command : perl parallel_Mine-0.1.pl

10- results are in the "results" directory