[BioC] Directed MST (Edmond's Algorithm)

Steve Lianoglou lianoglou.steve at gene.com
Tue Oct 22 18:24:55 CEST 2013


Hi,

On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 9:13 AM, Forst, Christian
<christian.forst at mssm.edu> wrote:
> I am looking for an implementation of Edmond's (or better) algorithm to calculated a directed minimum spanning tree from a directed graph. I found the edmondsOptimumBranching() function in the RBGL package but I am struggling in getting my graphs (from edge-lists) in the right format. I would guess using addEdge() is not the way to go to read large graphs.
> I am open for suggestions for other packages.

The igraph package is usually a good place to look for algorithms over graphs:

http://igraph.sourceforge.net

There is a `minimum.spanning.tree` function in there:

http://igraph.sourceforge.net/doc/R/minimum.spanning.tree.html

HTH,
-steve

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Steve Lianoglou
Computational Biologist
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Genentech



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