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  • Rcpi: R/Bioconductor packag...
    Cao, Dong-Sheng; Xiao, Nan; Xu, Qing-Song; Chen, Alex F

    Bioinformatics, 2015-Jan-15, 2015-01-15, 20150115, Letnik: 31, Številka: 2
    Journal Article

    In chemoinformatics and bioinformatics fields, one of the main computational challenges in various predictive modeling is to find a suitable way to effectively represent the molecules under investigation, such as small molecules, proteins and even complex interactions. To solve this problem, we developed a freely available R/Bioconductor package, called Compound-Protein Interaction with R (Rcpi), for complex molecular representation from drugs, proteins and more complex interactions, including protein-protein and compound-protein interactions. Rcpi could calculate a large number of structural and physicochemical features of proteins and peptides from amino acid sequences, molecular descriptors of small molecules from their topology and protein-protein interaction and compound-protein interaction descriptors. In addition to main functionalities, Rcpi could also provide a number of useful auxiliary utilities to facilitate the user's need. With the descriptors calculated by this package, the users could conveniently apply various statistical machine learning methods in R to solve various biological and drug research questions in computational biology and drug discovery. Rcpi is freely available from the Bioconductor site (http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/Rcpi.html).