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Table 1 Previously presented graph algorithms for maximal biclique enumeration

From: On finding bicliques in bipartite graphs: a novel algorithm and its application to the integration of diverse biological data types

Algorithms

Inputs

Outputs

Methods

Sanderson et al. [9]

Bipartite graph

Maximal bicliques of bounded minimum size

Exhaustive search by iterative biclique building

Mushlin et al. [13]

Bipartite graph

Maximal bicliques of bounded sizes and figure-of-merit values

Exhaustive search with a priority queue

Zaki et al. [21]

Bipartite graph

Maximal bicliques (one partition)

Frequent closed itemset mining in transaction databases

Uno et al. [25] (LCM/LCM2)

Bipartite graph

Maximal bicliques (one partition)

Frequent closed itemset mining

Li et al. [26] (LCM-MBC)

Bipartite graph

Maximal bicliques

Frequent closed itemset mining

Makino & Uno [18]

Bipartite graph

Maximal bicliques

Maximal clique finding in general graphs

Tomita et al. [30]

General graph

Maximal cliques

Maximal clique finding in general graphs

Eppstein [17]

General graph of bounded arboricity

Maximal bicliques

Exhaustive search

Alexe et al. [27] (MICA)

General graph

Maximal bicliques

A consensus algorithm

Liu et al. [28] (MineMBC)

General graph

Maximal bicliques of bounded minimum size

A divide-and-conquer approach