Motifs are generated by the canonical graph labeling algorithm NAUTY [20] and the canonical labels are made by selecting and concatenating diagonal, row and column elements. For example, the elements in the 363 1317923 adjacency matrix are selected in the following order: (1,1), (2,2), (2,1), (1,2), (3,3), (3,1), (3,2), (1,3), and (2,3).The ESU algorithm is employed to efficiently explore the INCB-039110 site search space. Although the ESU algorithm was originally developed for efficiently enumerating all k-node subgraphs, it can be effectively used to guide the paths to be explored during the search. The ESU algorithm first assigns an integer label on each node in the input network and finds all k-node subgraphs that a particular node participated in, then removes that node and subsequently repeats the process for the remaining nodes. During this 11967625 process, it enumerates all k-node subgraphs exactly once. This enumeration process is directly applied to explore the path to extend a partial mapping. Figure 4 illustrates the process of searching for adaptation motif in the input network. It is assumed that the path-tree for the adaptation motif is already loaded in the memory. Our algorithm explores the input network node based on both the integer label and connectivity and extends a partial mapping using a path-tree to decide whether to extend or backtrack. It prints the subgraph covering all the partial mapping when a partial mapping reaches the end of the path-tree. (See File S3.). From the searching process, we can approximately estimate the time get 10236-47-2 complexity of searching for all occurrences of k-node subgraph. If we suppose that the input network is fully connected graph with N nodes and the query regulatory motif is k-node Pk graph, the total number of comparison is (2i{1)C(N,i) i 1 (C(n, k) is the number of different combinations of k elements through n elements) because the total number of explored nodes is Pk C(N,i) and the number of increased edges from k21iRMOD: Regulatory Motif Detection ToolFigure 4. The process of searching for adaptation motif in the input network as an example. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0068407.gnode to k-node graph is 2k21. Since it is difficult to calculate the equation, we approximate the equation by changing k-node graph PN into N-node graph as the upper bound: (2i{1)C(N,i). i 1 N Hence, the total number of comparison is 2 (N21), and the time complexity is approximately O(N2N). The size of subgraph is practically less than N, and the most of the explored paths are pruned; therefore, the algorithm runs several orders of magnitude faster.Biological Network DatasetTo test the speed and scalability of our subgraph search algorithm, we used different sizes of signaling networks obtained from the integration of human signaling pathways. To build up the integrated signaling network, we collected the signaling molecules(most of them are proteins) and the activation or inhibition interactions between these molecules from the widely used pathway databases, Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) [21], NCI/Nature Pathway Interaction Database (PID) [22], BioCarta [23], Reactome [24], and PharmGKB [25]. As genes and proteins often have multiple synonyms, we used the Entrez GeneID for genes and their products as a cross-reference for ID mapping. We also excluded the inconsistent interactions with both activation and inhibition from the integrated signaling network. As a result, we obtained the integrated signaling network containing 9649.Motifs are generated by the canonical graph labeling algorithm NAUTY [20] and the canonical labels are made by selecting and concatenating diagonal, row and column elements. For example, the elements in the 363 1317923 adjacency matrix are selected in the following order: (1,1), (2,2), (2,1), (1,2), (3,3), (3,1), (3,2), (1,3), and (2,3).The ESU algorithm is employed to efficiently explore the search space. Although the ESU algorithm was originally developed for efficiently enumerating all k-node subgraphs, it can be effectively used to guide the paths to be explored during the search. The ESU algorithm first assigns an integer label on each node in the input network and finds all k-node subgraphs that a particular node participated in, then removes that node and subsequently repeats the process for the remaining nodes. During this 11967625 process, it enumerates all k-node subgraphs exactly once. This enumeration process is directly applied to explore the path to extend a partial mapping. Figure 4 illustrates the process of searching for adaptation motif in the input network. It is assumed that the path-tree for the adaptation motif is already loaded in the memory. Our algorithm explores the input network node based on both the integer label and connectivity and extends a partial mapping using a path-tree to decide whether to extend or backtrack. It prints the subgraph covering all the partial mapping when a partial mapping reaches the end of the path-tree. (See File S3.). From the searching process, we can approximately estimate the time complexity of searching for all occurrences of k-node subgraph. If we suppose that the input network is fully connected graph with N nodes and the query regulatory motif is k-node Pk graph, the total number of comparison is (2i{1)C(N,i) i 1 (C(n, k) is the number of different combinations of k elements through n elements) because the total number of explored nodes is Pk C(N,i) and the number of increased edges from k21iRMOD: Regulatory Motif Detection ToolFigure 4. The process of searching for adaptation motif in the input network as an example. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0068407.gnode to k-node graph is 2k21. Since it is difficult to calculate the equation, we approximate the equation by changing k-node graph PN into N-node graph as the upper bound: (2i{1)C(N,i). i 1 N Hence, the total number of comparison is 2 (N21), and the time complexity is approximately O(N2N). The size of subgraph is practically less than N, and the most of the explored paths are pruned; therefore, the algorithm runs several orders of magnitude faster.Biological Network DatasetTo test the speed and scalability of our subgraph search algorithm, we used different sizes of signaling networks obtained from the integration of human signaling pathways. To build up the integrated signaling network, we collected the signaling molecules(most of them are proteins) and the activation or inhibition interactions between these molecules from the widely used pathway databases, Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) [21], NCI/Nature Pathway Interaction Database (PID) [22], BioCarta [23], Reactome [24], and PharmGKB [25]. As genes and proteins often have multiple synonyms, we used the Entrez GeneID for genes and their products as a cross-reference for ID mapping. We also excluded the inconsistent interactions with both activation and inhibition from the integrated signaling network. As a result, we obtained the integrated signaling network containing 9649.