Detecting duplicate biological entities using Shortest Path Edit Distance

  • Authors:
  • Alex Rudniy;Min Song;James Geller

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102, USA.;Department of Information Systems, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102, USA.;Department of Computer Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102, USA

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Duplicate entity detection in biological data is an important research task. In this paper, we propose a novel and context-sensitive Shortest Path Edit Distance (SPED) extending and supplementing our previous work on Markov Random Field-based Edit Distance (MRFED). SPED transforms the edit distance computational problem to the calculation of the shortest path among two selected vertices of a graph. We produce several modifications of SPED by applying Levenshtein, arithmetic mean, histogram difference and TFIDF techniques to solve subtasks. We compare SPED performance to other well-known distance algorithms for biological entity matching. The experimental results show that SPED produces competitive outcomes.