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3-layer 2.5D Metabolic pathway layout algorithm

3 계층의 2.5차원 대사경로 레이아웃 알고리즘

  • Received : 2013.03.19
  • Accepted : 2013.04.30
  • Published : 2013.06.28
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Abstract

Metabolic pathway, represented by well-displayed graph, have a complex binding structure, which makes the graphical representation hard to visualize. To apply automatic graph layout techniques to the genome-scale metabolic flow of metabolism domains, it is very important to reduce unnecessary edge crossing on a metabolic pathway layout. we proposed a metabolic pathway layout algorithm based on 3-layer layout. Our algorithm searches any meaningful component existing in a pathway, such as circular components, highly connected nodes, and the components are drawn in middle layer. Then the remaining subgraphs except meaningful components are drawn in upper and lower layer by utilizing a new radial layout algorithm. It reduces ultimately reduced the number of edge crossings. Our algorithm solve the problem that edge crossings exponentially increase as the number of nodes grows.

화합물의 상호 관계를 그래프를 통해 표현하는 대사 경로는 본질적인 복잡성 때문에 대사 경로 내의 흐름을 한눈에 알 수 있도록 가시화하여 보여 주는 도구가 반드시 필요하다. 또한 유전체 수준의 대사 경로를 연구하기 위해서는 대사 경로 그래프 레이아웃 상에 나타나는 에지 교차를 줄이는 것이 시각화의 매우 중요한 부분이다. 본 논문은 생물학에서의 대사 경로에 대한 시각화를 위한 3-계층을 이용한 대사 경로 레이아웃 알고리즘을 제안한다. 대사경로의 구조적 특징을 고려하여 노드수가 증가하여도 에지 교차가 기하급수적으로 증가하는 문제를 해결하기 위하여 연결성 높은 노드와 환형 컴포넌트를 중앙계층에 위치시키고 나머지 부분 그래프를 상위와 하위 계층에 레이아웃 하도록 한다. 실험을 통해 에지 교차수가 줄어듦을 확인할 수 있다.

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