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Fishbone

Associations search is one of the methods of data analysis. Associated Rule Mining (ARM) approach can construct association rules from observational data, but the most widely used algorithm Apriori typically produces a large number of unstructured results without any ranking or statistical significance. We propose a novel method FARM (Fishbone Association Rule Mining) to address these challenges. FARM is a method for hierarchical association rule construction with significance filtering and a web-application for interactive visualisation and exploration of results. Hierarchical rules are visualized in a form of Fishbone Ishikawa diagrams. Fishbone is a client-server application for discovering and visualization of hierarchical rules with interactive web UI and http API.

Open Access Paper: https://doi.org/10.1145/3459930.3469499

Citation: Tsurinov, P., Shpynov, O., Lukashina, N., Likholetova, D. and Artyomov, M. FARM: hierarchical association rule mining and visualization method.
In Proceedings of the 12th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (pp. 1-1), 2021

Poster is available here.

Workflow

This service implements a novel approach to mine association rules within specified data.
In addition to constructing hierarchical rules, it implements filtering of unproductive rules according to 'improvement' metric [1] with corresponding significance check.
Significance check is done using holdout approach [2].

Development

Requirements

Java 11
Gradle >= 5.51

Build from sources

Clone bioinf-commons library under the project root.

git clone git@github.com:JetBrains-Research/bioinf-commons.git

Launch the following command line to build jar:

./gradlew shadowJar

This command will create executable jar file with name

build/libs/fishbone-{version}.build.jar

Testing

In order to test service, use the following command from the project directory:

./gradlew test

This command will run all available kotlin tests.

Run

To run service use the following command:

java -Dgenomes.path={path_to_empty_folder_to_store_genomes} -jar build/libs/fishbone-{version}.build.jar

Optional program options are:

--port {port to run server; default: 8080}
--output {path to output folder}

Usage

Web UI consists of two main parts: running analysis and visualize results from local files.

Run analysis

Predicate files, database file, experiment type and objective function must be specified to run Fishbone algorithm. Checkboxes on the right side could be also used to run alternative algorithms.