The Metric Space of Proteins: Comparative Study of Clustering Algorithms

• Main Authors: SASSON, Ori, Linial, Nathan, Linial, Michal
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2002
• Subjects: protein families; protein classification; sequence alignment; clustering; Bioinformatics; Computer Sciences
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/1249; http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/18/suppl_1/S14.abstract
• Institution: Singapore Management University

A large fraction of biological research concentrates on individual proteins and on small families of proteins. One of the current major challenges in bioinformatics is to extend our knowledge to very large sets of proteins. Several major projects have tackled this problem. Such undertakings usually...