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Conserved network motifs allow protein-protein interaction prediction Export

Bioinformatics, Vol. 20, No. 18. (12 December 2004), pp. 3346-3352.

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Motivation: High-throughput protein interaction detection methods are strongly affected by false positive and false negative results. Focused experiments are needed to complement the large-scale methods by validating previously detected interactions but it is often difficult to decide which proteins to probe as interaction partners. Developing reliable computational methods assisting this decision process is a pressing need in bioinformatics. Results: We show that we can use the conserved properties of the protein network to identify and validate interaction candidates. We apply a number of machine learning algorithms to the protein connectivity information and achieve a surprisingly good overall performance in predicting interacting proteins. Using a leave-one-out' approach we find average success rates between 20 and 40% for predicting the correct interaction partner of a protein. We demonstrate that the success of these methods is based on the presence of conserved interaction motifs within the network. Availability: A reference implementation and a table with candidate interacting partners for each yeast protein are available at http://www.protsuggest.org. 10.1093/bioinformatics/bth402


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