@inproceedings{47e050a0053541ceaa55e0862ae47023,
title = "Automated Discovery of Active Motifs in Three Dimensional Molecules",
abstract = "In this paper we present a method for discovering approximately common motifs (also known as active motifs) in three dimensional (3D) molecules. Each node in a molecule is represented by a 3D point in the Euclidean Space and each edge is represented by an undirected line segment connecting two nodes in the molecule. Motifs are rigid substructures which may occur in a molecule after allowing for an arbitrary number of rotations and translations as well as a small number (specified by the user) of node insert/delete operations in the motifs or the molecule. (We call this {"}approximate occurrence.{"}) The proposed method combines the geometric hashing technique and block detection algorithms for undirected graphs. To demonstrate the utility of our algorithms, we discuss their applications to classifying three families of molecules pertaining to antibacterial sulfa drugs, anti-anxiety agents (benzodiazepines) and antiadrenergic agents (β receptors). Experimental results indicate the good performance of our algorithms and the high quality of the discovered motifs.",
author = "Xiong Wang and Wang, {Jason T.L.} and Dennis Shasha and Bruce Shapiro and Sitaram Dikshitulu and Isidore Rigoutsos and Kaizhong Zhang",
note = "Publisher Copyright: Copyright {\textcopyright} 1997, American Association for Artificial Intelligence (www.aaai.org). All rights reserved.; 3rd International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, KDD 1997 ; Conference date: 14-08-1997 Through 17-08-1997",
year = "1997",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings - 3rd International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, KDD 1997",
publisher = "AAAI press",
pages = "89--95",
editor = "David Heckerman and Heikki Mannila and Daryl Pregibon and Ramasamy Uthurusamy",
booktitle = "Proceedings - 3rd International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, KDD 1997",
}