Title
MiMod: A New Algorithm for Mining Biological Network Modules
Abstract
It is fundamental to discover frequent network modules from multiple networks as they serve gene co-expression modules, biological pathways, or protein complexes. The rapid accumulation of biological network data has enabled the discovery of frequent network modules. There have been a number of algorithms developed for the discovery of frequent network modules in the past years, but most of them do not perform consistently well evaluated by accuracy and efficiency. Therefore, it is essential to develop new algorithms capable of effectively and efficiently extracting the significant modules. We introduce MiMod, a robust algorithm for mining the frequent network modules based on enhancing the sensitivity to mine frequent network modules via introducing a so-called compatible graph with edge weight reflecting frequent degree of local subnetworks. Tested on 43 gene co-expression networks from GEO and 13 tissue-specific protein interaction networks from SNAP, the MiMod, respectively, discovered 4805 and 485 biologically important and frequent modules that are missed by others. In addition, we found that the likelihood for a network module to be biologically meaningful increases with its density and frequency. Moreover, we also found highly cooperative relationships in the modules of protein complex networks, thus demonstrating the necessity of revealing frequent modules from multiple networks.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2909946
IEEE ACCESS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Algorithms,data mining,network theory
Graph,Protein Interaction Networks,Biological network,Computer science,Computer network,Algorithm,Complex network,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
7
2169-3536
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yang Li1659125.00
Bingqiang Liu2434.88
Jing Li301.35
Guojun Li427037.39