Mining coherent dense subgraphs across massive biological networks for functional discovery
1Program in Molecular and Computational Biology, University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
2Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL 61801, USA
*To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Motivation: The rapid accumulation of biological network data translates into an urgent need for computational methods for graph pattern mining. One important problem is to identify recurrent patterns across multiple networks to discover biological modules. However, existing algorithms for frequent pattern mining become very costly in time and space as the pattern sizes and network numbers increase. Currently, no efficient algorithm is available for mining recurrent patterns across large collections of genome-wide networks.
Results: We developed a novel algorithm, CODENSE, to efficiently mine frequent coherent dense subgraphs across large numbers of massive graphs. Compared with previous methods, our approach is scalable in the number and size of the input graphs and adjustable in terms of exact or approximate pattern mining. Applying CODENSE to 39 co-expression networks derived from microarray datasets, we discovered a large number of functionally homogeneous clusters and made functional predictions for 169 uncharacterized yeast genes.
Availability: http://zhoulab.usc.edu/CODENSE/
Contact: xjzhou{at}usc.edu
Received on January 15, 2005; accepted on March 27, 2005
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