[BioC] Bayesian networks in BioC

[Jacob Michaelson]

On May 27, 2006, at 8:08 AM, alex lam ((RI)) wrote:
>
> There is a package called "deal" in CRAN for Bayesian Network  
> Learning. Never used it before though.
>
> Cheers,
> Alex


On May 27, 2006, at 10:09 AM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
> Another word for Bayesian networks is graphical models.
>
> On Bioconductor, "GraphsAndNetworks" on
> http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/Software.html is probably
> a good start.  I believe geneTS is one such package.
>
> On CRAN, a great page for this is
> http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Views/gR.html.
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Henrik

Thanks for the tips.  This will give me a great start.  I'm not a  
statistician, either, so I didn't know all the Bayesian networks  
synonyms to help in my search.  I've just read a little more about  
them and they seem to be painted as some sort of "silver  
bullet" (compared to traditional clustering techniques) for teasing  
out relationships among genes.  I wanted to give them a shot, but  
couldn't find the right packages - until now.

Thanks guys,

Jake