<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Formal concept analysis (FCA) is a method based on lattice theory, widely used for data visualization, data analysis and knowledge discovery. Amino acids (AAs) are chemical molecules that constitute the proteins. In this paper is presented a new and easy way of visualizing of the structure and properties of AAs. In addition, we performed a new Hydrophobic-Polar classification of AAs using FCA. For this, the 20 proteinogenic AAs were clustered, classified by hydrophobicity and visualized in Hasse-diagrams. Exploring and processing the dataset was done with Elba and ToscanaJ, some FCA tools and Conceptual Information System (CIS).</p></abstract>

Formal concept analysis (FCA) is a method based on lattice theory, widely used for data visualization, data analysis and knowledge discovery. Amino acids (AAs) are chemical molecules that constitute the proteins. In this paper is presented a new and easy way of visualizing of the structure and properties of AAs. In addition, we performed a new Hydrophobic-Polar classification of AAs using FCA. For this, the 20 proteinogenic AAs were clustered, classified by hydrophobicity and visualized in Hasse-diagrams. Exploring and processing the dataset was done with Elba and ToscanaJ, some FCA tools and Conceptual Information System (CIS).

Formal concept analysis for amino acids classification and visualization

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Formal concept analysis (FCA) is a method based on lattice theory, widely used for data visualization, data analysis and knowledge discovery. Amino acids (AAs)...

Formal concept analysis for amino acids classification and visualization

Publicado en línea: 16 jul 2020

Páginas: 22 - 38

Recibido: 11 nov 2019

Aceptado: 06 ene 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ausi-2020-0002

Palabras clave
formal concepts, lattices, proteins, amino acids, scales, organic compounds

© 2020 Adrian-Sorin Telcian et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Formal concept analysis for amino acids classification and visualization

Publicado en línea: 16 jul 2020

Páginas: 22 - 38

Recibido: 11 nov 2019

Aceptado: 06 ene 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ausi-2020-0002

Palabras claveformal concepts, lattices, proteins, amino acids, scales, organic compounds

© 2020 Adrian-Sorin Telcian et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Palabras clave
formal concepts, lattices, proteins, amino acids, scales, organic compounds