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Data mining, a part of the Knowledge Discovery in Databases process (KDD), is the process of extracting patterns from large data sets by combining methods from statistics and artificial intelligence with database management. Analyses of epigenetic data have evolved towards genome-wide and high-throughput approaches, thus generating great amounts of data for which data mining is essential. Part of these data may contain patterns of epigenetic information which are faithfully propagated over multiple cell divisions, making epigenetic regulation a key mechanism for cellular differentiation and cell fate decisions. In addition, incomplete erasure of epigenetic information can lead to complex patterns of non-Mendelian inheritance. Therefore, the previous patterns could be extracted with data mining techniques. This work reviews some of the most important applications of data mining to epigenetics.
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.: SABIA :. Sistemas Adaptativos y Bioinspirados en Inteligencia Artificial