This article is part of the supplement: Otto Warburg International Summer School and Workshop on Networks and Regulation
Review
Graphs in molecular biology
1 European Bioinformatics Institute, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK
2 Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston MA 02115, USA
3 Vital-IT Center, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
4 Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Computational Biology Group, 1100 Fairview Avenue North – M2-B876, P.O. Box 19024, Seattle WA 98109-1024, USA
BMC Bioinformatics 2007, 8(Suppl 6):S8 doi:10.1186/1471-2105-8-S6-S8
Published: 27 September 2007Abstract
Graph theoretical concepts are useful for the description and analysis of interactions and relationships in biological systems. We give a brief introduction into some of the concepts and their areas of application in molecular biology. We discuss software that is available through the Bioconductor project and present a simple example application to the integration of a protein-protein interaction and a co-expression network.
