Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
429433 Journal of Computational Science 2012 9 Pages PDF
Abstract

We propose using a graph-theoretic data structure, the Voronoi diagram for graphs, for analyzing the structure of biological networks. The Voronoi diagram for graphs (VDG) offers an efficient way to cluster the members of a network based on their distance to a subset of input nodes. We study the distance-based decomposition of the human erythrocyte interactome provided by VDG, seeking to elucidate the influence of sickle cell anemia on the function of the erythrocyte proteins. We also provide an efficient open-source Java package that computes VDG.

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