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Bioinformatics Advance Access originally published online on October 10, 2006
Bioinformatics 2007 23(1):77-83; doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btl511
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DASS: efficient discovery and p-value calculation of substructures in unordered data

Jens Hollunder 1, Maik Friedel 1, Andreas Beyer 1,2, Christopher T. Workman 2 and Thomas Wilhelm 1,*

1 Department of Theoretical Systems Biology, Leibniz Institute for Age Research—Fritz-Lipmann-Institute e. V. (former IMB Jena) Beutenbergstrasse 11, D-07745 Jena, Germany
2 Department of Bioengineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA

*To whom correspondence should be addressed.

Motivation: Pattern identification in biological sequence data is one of the main objectives of bioinformatics research. However, few methods are available for detecting patterns (substructures) in unordered datasets. Data mining algorithms mainly developed outside the realm of bioinformatics have been adapted for that purpose, but typically do not determine the statistical significance of the identified patterns. Moreover, these algorithms do not exploit the often modular structure of biological data.

Results: We present the algorithm DASS (Discovery of All Significant Substructures) that first identifies all substructures in unordered data (DASSSub) in a manner that is especially efficient for modular data. In addition, DASS calculates the statistical significance of the identified substructures, for sets with at most one element of each type (DASSPset), or for sets with multiple occurrence of elements (DASSPmset). The power and versatility of DASS is demonstrated by four examples: combinations of protein domains in multi-domain proteins, combinations of proteins in protein complexes (protein subcomplexes), combinations of transcription factor target sites in promoter regions and evolutionarily conserved protein interaction subnetworks.

Availability: The program code and additional data are available at http://www.fli-leibniz.de/tsb/DASS

Contact: wilhelm{at}fli-leibniz.de

Supplementary information: Supplementary information is available at Bioinformatics online.

Received on May 31, 2006; revised on September 28, 2006; accepted on October 1, 2006

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