A Survey of Graph Mining Techniques for Biological Datasets

Abstract

Mining structured information has been the source of much research in the data mining community over the last decade. The field of bioinformatics has emerged as important application area in this context. Examples abound ranging from the analysis of protein interaction networks to the analysis of phylogenetic data. In this article we survey the principal results in the field examining them both from the algorithmic contributions and applicability in the domain in question. We conclude this article with a discussion of the key results and identify some interesting directions for future research.