Recent biotechnology advances allow for multiple types of omics data, such as transcriptomic, proteomic or metabolomic data sets to be integrated. The problem of feature selection has been addressed several times in the context of classification, but needs to be handled in a specific manner when...

Recent biotechnology advances allow for multiple types of omics data, such as transcriptomic, proteomic or metabolomic data sets to be integrated. The problem of feature selection has been addressed several times in the context of classification, but needs to be handled in a specific manner when...

This note is a comment on the article "Dimension Reduction for Classification with Gene Expression Microarray Data" that appeared in Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology (Dai et al., 2006).