title: Structure comparison and structure patterns.
abstract: This article investigates aspects of pairwise and multiple structure comparison, and the problem of automatically discover common patterns in a set of structures. Descriptions and representation of structures and patterns are described, as well as scoring and algorithms for comparison and discovery. A framework and nomenclature is developed for classifying different methods, and many of these are reviewed and placed into this framework.
authors.affiliation: Department of Informatics, University of Bergen, Høyteknologisentret, N-5020 Bergen, Norway. Ingvar.Edihammer@ii.uib.no
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Eidhammer
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Jonassen
authors.forename: W R
authors.initials: WR
authors.lastname: Taylor
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D016208:Databases, Factual; D015394:Molecular Structure; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*; D016415:Sequence Alignment / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins