Title
A technique to search for functional similarities in protein-protein interaction networks.
Abstract
We describe a method to search for similarities across protein-protein interaction networks of different organisms. The technique core consists in computing a maximum weight matching of bipartite graphs resulting from comparing the neighbourhoods of proteins belonging to different networks. Both quantitative and reliability information are exploited. We tested the method on the networks of S. cerevisiae, D. melanogaster and C. elegans. The experiments showed that the technique is able to detect functional orthologs when the sole sequence similarity does not prove itself sufficient. They also demonstrated the capability of our approach in discovering common biological processes involving uncharacterised proteins.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1504/IJDMB.2009.029205
IJDMB
Keywords
DocType
Volume
protein-protein interaction network,common biological process,different organism,bipartite graph,functional similarity,functional orthologs,technique core,maximum weight,different network,s. cerevisiae,c. elegans
Journal
3
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
4
1748-5673
6
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.41
9
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Valeria Fionda113018.53
Luigi Palopoli21387185.69
Simona Panni3746.80
Simona E. Rombo419222.21