Title
Predicting homologous signaling pathways using machine learning.
Abstract
In general, each cell signaling pathway involves many proteins, each with one or more specific roles. As they are essential components of cell activity, it is important to understand how these proteins work-and in particular, to determine which of the species' proteins participate in each role. Experimentally determining this mapping of proteins to roles is difficult and time consuming. Fortunately, many pathways are similar across species, so we may be able to use known pathway information of one species to understand the corresponding pathway of another.We present an automatic approach, Predict Signaling Pathway (PSP), which uses the signaling pathways in well-studied species to predict the roles of proteins in less-studied species. We use a machine learning approach to create a predictor that achieves a generalization F-measure of 78.2% when applied to 11 different pathways across 14 different species. We also show our approach is very effective in predicting the pathways that have not yet been experimentally studied completely.The list of predicted proteins for all pathways over all considered species is available at http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~bioinfo/signaling.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1093/bioinformatics/btp532
Bioinformatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
cell activity,corresponding pathway,well-studied species,contact: bioinfo@cs.ualberta.ca supplementary information: the list of predicted proteins for all pathways over all considered species is available at www.cs.ualberta.ca/ bioinfo/signaling.,different pathway,considered species,automatic approach,proteins work,pathway information,less-studied species,machine learning,different species,signaling pathway,cell signaling
Biology,Cell,Artificial intelligence,Signal transduction,Cell signaling,Bioinformatics,Homologous chromosome,Machine learning
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
25
22
1367-4811
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.37
16
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Babak Bostan120.37
R. Greiner22261218.93
D. Szafron31579210.88
Paul Lu441245.32