Re: Combinatorial problem

On 11/30/05 8:57 AM, "Srinivas Iyyer" <srini_iyyer_bio(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote:

> Sorry for being unclear.
>
> As of now from the whole mess of data, I do not know
> which targets are acted unique by a drug.
>
> For instance, Drug m134 is acting only on target T432,
> T438,T654.
> these targets are affected only by drug m134 and
> nothing else.
>
> Similarly, two drugs, m23 and m45 are acting on a
> group of targets, T987, T12,T334, T543.
>
> m2,m3 and m5 are acting on T439,3421,T4568,T31
> m2,m3 and m8 are acrting on T124, T1334,T446,T98.
> m5,m8 and m12 are acting on T088,T898,T329.
>
> Now, I have no idea what combination of drugs are
> acting on set of targets.
>
> IS there any way to get set of drugs and set of
> targets that happening in the data.

I see your problem. I don't see how to do this off the top of my head.
However, I do agree that you will not likely be able to do this with
straight SQL, as you suspect. You might try posting to pgsql-sql list, as
well, if you don't get an answer here.

Sean