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Third IEEE Symposium on BioInformatics and BioEngineering (BIBE'03)
MotifMiner: A General Toolkit for Efficiently Identifying Common Substructures in Molecules
Bethesda, Maryland
March 10-March 12
ISBN: 0-7695-1907-5
Matt Coatney, Ohio State University
Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Ohio State University
Scientific research often involves examining structural relationships in molecules since scientists strongly believe in the causal relationship between structure and function. Traditionally, researchers have identified these patterns, or motifs, manually using biochemical expertise. However, with the massive influx of new biochemical data and the ability to gather data for very large molecules, there is great need for techniques that automatically and efficiently identify commonly occurring structural patterns in molecules. Previous automated substructure discovery approaches have each introduced variations of similar underlying techniques and have embedded domain knowledge. While doing so improves performance for the particular domain, this complicates extensibility to other domains. Also, they do not address scalability or noise, which is critical for certain structural domains like macromolecules. In this paper, we present MotifMiner, a general toolkit for automatically identifying common motifs in most any scientific molecular dataset. We describe both our application framework and services for identifying motifs, as well as demonstrate the flexibility of our system by analyzing several disparate domains, including protein, drug, and MD simulation datasets.
Citation:
Matt Coatney, Srinivasan Parthasarathy, "MotifMiner: A General Toolkit for Efficiently Identifying Common Substructures in Molecules," bibe, pp.336, Third IEEE Symposium on BioInformatics and BioEngineering (BIBE'03), 2003
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