Title
CytoMCS: A Multiple Maximum Common Subgraph Detection Tool for Cytoscape.
Abstract
Comparative analysis of biological networks is a major problem in computational integrative systems biology. By computing the maximum common edge subgraph between a set of networks, one is able to detect conserved substructures between them and quantify their topological similarity. To aid such analyses we have developed CytoMCS, a Cytoscape app for computing inexact solutions to the maximum common edge subgraph problem for two or more graphs. Our algorithm uses an iterative local search heuristic for computing conserved sub-graphs, optimizing a squared edge conservation score that is able to detect not only fully conserved edges but also partially conserved edges. It can be applied to any set of directed or undirected, simple graphs loaded as networks into Cytoscape, e.g. protein-protein interaction networks or gene regulatory networks. CytoMCS is available as a Cytoscape app at http://apps.cytoscape.org/apps/cytomcs.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1515/jib-2017-0014
JOURNAL OF INTEGRATIVE BIOINFORMATICS
Keywords
Field
DocType
networks,network alignment,global network alignment,local search
Data mining,Computer science,Network alignment,Artificial intelligence,Bioinformatics,Local search (optimization),Machine learning
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
14
SP2
1613-4516
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.36
4
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Simon J Larsen110.36
Jan Baumbach214822.11