Finite Dimension: A Mathematical Tool to Analise Glycans.
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SUBMITTER: Alonso JM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5849774 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar
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Finite Dimension: A Mathematical Tool to Analise Glycans.
Alonso J M JM Arroyuelo A A Garay P G PG Martin O A OA Vila J A JA
Scientific reports 20180313 1
There is a need to develop widely applicable tools to understand glycan organization, diversity and structure. We present a graph-theoretical study of a large sample of glycans in terms of finite dimension, a new metric which is an adaptation to finite sets of the classical Hausdorff "fractal" dimension. Every glycan in the sample is encoded, via finite dimension, as a point of Glycan Space, a new notion introduced in this paper. Two major outcomes were found: (a) the existence of universal boun ...[more]
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