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- Title
Efficient enumeration of monocyclic chemical graphs with given path frequencies.
- Authors
Masaki Suzuki; Hiroshi Nagamochi; Tatsuya Akutsu
- Abstract
Background The enumeration of chemical graphs (molecular graphs) satisfying given constraints is one of the fundamental problems in chemoinformatics and bioinformatics because it leads to a variety of useful applications including structure determination and development of novel chemical compounds. Results We consider the problem of enumerating chemical graphs with monocyclic structure (a graph structure that contains exactly one cycle) from a given set of feature vectors, where a feature vector represents the frequency of the prescribed paths in a chemical compound to be constructed and the set is specified by a pair of upper and lower feature vectors. To enumerate all tree-like (acyclic) chemical graphs from a given set of feature vectors, Shimizu et al. and Suzuki et al. proposed efficient branch-and-bound algorithms based on a fast tree enumeration algorithm. In this study, we devise a novel method for extending these algorithms to enumeration of chemical graphs with monocyclic structure by designing a fast algorithm for testing uniqueness. The results of computational experiments reveal that the computational efficiency of the new algorithm is as good as those for enumeration of tree-like chemical compounds. Conclusions We succeed in expanding the class of chemical graphs that are able to be enumerated efficiently.
- Subjects
MOLECULAR graphs; CHEMINFORMATICS; BIOINFORMATICS; CHEMICALS; ALGORITHMS
- Publication
Journal of Cheminformatics, 2014, Vol 6, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1758-2946
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1186/1758-2946-6-31