Weighill, D. A. et al., 2015. PLoS Computational Biology

3-way Networks: Application of Hypergraphs for Modelling Increased Complexity in Comparative Genomics

Deborah A. Weighill, and Daniel A. Jacobson
27 March 2015, PLoS Computational Biology 11(3): e1004079; doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004079

Abstract

We present and develop the theory of 3-way networks, a type of hypergraph in which each edge models relationships between triplets of objects as opposed to pairs of objects as done by standard network models. We explore approaches of how to prune these 3-way networks, illustrate their utility in comparative genomics and demonstrate how they find relationships which would be missed by standard 2-way network models using a phylogenomic dataset of 211 bacterial genomes.

Citation

Weighill DA, Jacobson DA (2015) 3-way Networks: Application of Hypergraphs for Modelling Increased Complexity in Comparative Genomics. PLoS Comput Biol 11(3): e1004079. doi:10.1371/ journal.pcbi.1004079

Data Availability: All genome sequences can be found at the NCBI genome repository (ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/)