APCluster: an R package for affinity propagation clustering

SUMMARY Affinity propagation (AP) clustering has recently gained increasing popularity in bioinformatics. AP clustering has the advantage that it allows for determining typical cluster members, the so-called exemplars. We provide an R implementation of this promising new clustering technique to account for the ubiquity of R in bioinformatics. This article introduces the package and presents an application from structural biology. AVAILABILITY The R package apcluster is available via CRAN-The Comprehensive R Archive Network: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/apcluster CONTACT apcluster@bioinf.jku.at; bodenhofer@bioinf.jku.at.

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