Mining spatially cohesive itemsets in protein molecular structures

  • Authors:
  • Cheng Zhou;Pieter Meysman;Boris Cule;Kris Laukens;Bart Goethals

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Antwerp, Belgium and National University of Defense Technology, China;University of Antwerp, Belgium and Biomedical informatics research center Antwerpen (biomina), Belgium;University of Antwerp, Belgium;University of Antwerp, Belgium and Biomedical informatics research center Antwerpen (biomina), Belgium;University of Antwerp, Belgium

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

In this paper we present a cohesive structural itemset miner aiming to discover interesting patterns in a set of data objects within a multidimensional spatial structure by combining the cohesion and the support of the pattern. The usefulness of this algorithm is demonstrated by applying it to find interesting patterns of amino acids in spatial proximity within a set of proteins based on their atomic coordinates in the protein molecular structure. The experiments show that several patterns found by the cohesive structural itemset miner contain amino acids that frequently co-occur in the spatial structure, even if they are distant in the primary protein sequence and only brought together by protein folding. Further various indications were found that some of the discovered patterns seem to represent common underlying support structures within the proteins.