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ArticleGigaScience2020

Pyntacle: a parallel computing-enabled framework for large-scale network biology analysis.

Luca Parca, Mauro Truglio, Tommaso Biagini, Stefano Castellana, Francesco Petrizzelli, Daniele Capocefalo, Ferenc Jordán, Massimo Carella, Tommaso Mazza

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Article in GigaScience, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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Luca ParcaIRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Viale Cappuccini 1, 71013, San Giovanni Rotondo (FG), Italy.
Mauro TruglioIRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Viale Cappuccini 1, 71013, San Giovanni Rotondo (FG), Italy.
Tommaso BiaginiIRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Viale Cappuccini 1, 71013, San Giovanni Rotondo (FG), Italy.
Stefano CastellanaIRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Viale Cappuccini 1, 71013, San Giovanni Rotondo (FG), Italy.
Francesco PetrizzelliIRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Viale Cappuccini 1, 71013, San Giovanni Rotondo (FG), Italy.
Daniele CapocefaloIRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Viale Cappuccini 1, 71013, San Giovanni Rotondo (FG), Italy.
Ferenc JordánBalaton Limnological Institute, Centre for Ecological Research Klebelsberg Kuno 3, 8237 Tihany, Hungary.
Massimo CarellaIRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, Laboratory of Medical Genetics, Viale Padre Pio 7d, 71013, San Giovanni Rotondo (FG), Italy.
Tommaso MazzaIRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Viale Cappuccini 1, 71013, San Giovanni Rotondo (FG), Italy.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundSome natural systems are big in size, complex, and often characterized by convoluted mechanisms of interaction, such as epistasis, pleiotropy, and trophism, which cannot be immediately ascribed to individual natural events or biological entities but that are often derived from group effects. However, the determination of important groups of entities, such as genes or proteins, in complex systems is considered a computationally hard task.

resultsWe present Pyntacle, a high-performance framework designed to exploit parallel computing and graph theory to efficiently identify critical groups in big networks and in scenarios that cannot be tackled with traditional network analysis approaches.

conclusionsWe showcase potential applications of Pyntacle with transcriptomics and structural biology data, thereby highlighting the outstanding improvement in terms of computational resources over existing tools.

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