TY - JOUR T1 - Edge Pruning and GA-Based Clustering Approach for Biological Data Analysis AU - Jolly, Athira A. AU - Ashok, Sreeja JO - Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences VL - 12 IS - 11 SP - 2990 EP - 2995 PY - 2017 DA - 2001/08/19 SN - 1816-949x DO - jeasci.2017.2990.2995 UR - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=jeasci.2017.2990.2995 KW - Edge pruning KW -Genetic algorithm KW -mutation KW -centrality KW -clusters AB - Analysis of various kinds of biological data is one of the major problems in bioinformatics. Data mining approaches can be used to uncover hidden patterns and to extract significant knowledge for better analysis and decision making. In this study, we analyse different methods for simplifying the complex networks by identifying significant edges using edge pruning techniques and introduced GA-based clustering process for building optimum subgraphs from the pruned network. The optimum edges were identified by evaluating the similarity between the pair of nodes. Different graph properties like centrality measures are used for positioning the data objects and for improving the cluster cohesiveness. Modularity value was used as the fitness function and mutation operator was performed for deriving the optimum clusters. ER -