Mathematical Data Mining
The term data mining is used to describe a large range of techniques used to extract information from biological data. The dictionary definition defines data mining as ‘methods to look for trends or anomalies in data without knowledge of the meaning of the data’, and this type of analysis is heavily exploited within the retail and financial world. This article presents a discovery-driven data mining technique used on protein structure data to highlight features of interest that would be difficult find using hypothesis-based analysis.