Vol. 5, No. 2 February 2014 ISSN 2079-8407
Journal of Emerging Trends in Computing and Information Sciences
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Motivation and Justification of Naturalistic Method for
Bioinformatics Research
1
Nooruldeen Nasih Qader,
2
Hussein Keitan Al-Khafaji
1
Computer Science, University of Sulaimani, Sulaimani, Iraq
2
Computer Communication, Alrafidain University College, Baghdad, Iraq
ABSTRACT
This paper introduces and proposes naturalistic method as a trends base for the Bioinformatics research. Naturalistic method
emphasizes on finding biodata properties by insight in a real data nature to reflect its de facto and to be as far from the
Bioinformatics theoretical assumptions as possible. We present and justify motivating factors in this direction such as studies
that depend mainly on hypotheses models lead to the derivation of imperfect biological models, availability of huge real data,
furthermore new technologies enable sustainable flow of data. This method aims to find better ways for representing biological
data and process. This goal could be reached by finding biodata properties and characteristics. On the other hand, discovered
properties could be utilized to enhance different algorithm in Bioinformatics.
Keywords: Naturalistic, Bioinformatics, microarray, property, algorithm, data mining, motif, genome, gene, PWM, nucleotide, DNA,
binding site.
1. INTRODUCTION
The research methodologies are continuously
developing to involve new techniques and ideas. Therefore,
the appearance of the network and the web made it possible
for the scientific community to share data produced by high
throughput techniques, thus providing massive, new and free
data to be investigated and analyzed. A set of data on its
own is very hard to interpret. There is a lot of information
contained in the data, but it is hard to see. Ways of
understanding important features of the data are necessary
[1], [2].
In this study we demonstrated shortcoming and
disadvantages of using theoretical assumptions in
Bioinformatics such as in motif representation and sequence
generation. Also, we briefly introduced naturalistic method.
The aim of this work is basically to present motivation and
justification factors to shift Bioinformatics research to rely
more on available data.
To overcome challenges faced in researches,
different disciplines continuously conduct the process of
designing new methods beside ordinary research methods;
pragmatism was a philosophical foundation for new
methods of research [3], [4].
In this context disciplines such as Bioinformatics
and more precisely data mining in Bioinformatics come in
advance. These efforts lead to good progress, knowledge
and efficiency in medicine and Bioinformatics. In
Bioinformatics, recent trends concentrate on the nature of
biological data to make a design more efficient [5]. The
situation results in an increase in the amount of information
mining from the data. This study proposes and emphasis on
naturalistic and realistic trend as a base for the
Bioinformatics research method.
2. RELATED WORK
No single scientific method could be applied to all
branches of science. Pragmatism and finding solution to a
problem made scientists use whatever they can. In the
following we present some related ideas to researches
methods:
2.1 Deduction Philosophy vs. Induction Philosophy
In the article called “Is the Scientific Paper a
Fraud?” Peter Medewar reported in which induction, unlike
with deductions, acquired no place with scientific research.
Medewar agrees with Karl Popper, a philosopher of science.
Popper refused induction being a legit sort of judgment from
the process of scientific research [6]. The reason why in
which deductions generally seems to delight in
recommended philosophical standing subsequently is if
typically the axiom plus the observation are generally
appropriate typically the logical inference needs to be
appropriate. By contrast, induction sometimes appears is
noted as being not secure philosophically simply because it
collapses to help counter-examples [7].
2.2 Hypothesis-driven and Data-driven Method
Popper and Medewar argued vehemently for a
method of scientific practice based on the so-called
hypothetico-deductive system, the essence of which is the
formulation of a hypothesis derived from a collection of
facts, testing the hypothesis by trying to ‘falsify’ it,