Large-scale Protein-Protein Interaction prediction using novel kernel methods

  • Authors:
  • Xue-wen Chen;Bing Han;Jianwen Fang;Ryan J. Haasl

  • Affiliations:
  • Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA.;Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA.;Bioinformatics Core Facility, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66047, USA.;Bioinformatics Core Facility, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66047, USA

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Knowledge of Protein-Protein Interactions (PPIs) can give us new insights into molecular mechanisms and properties of the cell. In this paper, we propose a novel domain-based kernel method to predict PPIs. A new kernel that measures the similarity between protein pairs based on a new feature representation is developed and applied to a large scale PPI database. Experimental results demonstrate its effectiveness. Furthermore, we evaluate the problem of cross-species PPI prediction and the effect of the number of negative samples on the performance of PPI predictions, which are two fundamental problems in most in silico PPI methods.