The architecture of a proteomic network in the yeast

  • Authors:
  • Emad Ramadan;Christopher Osgood;Alex Pothen

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Science Department, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA;Biological Sciences Department, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA;Computer Science Department, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA

  • Venue:
  • CompLife'05 Proceedings of the First international conference on Computational Life Sciences
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We describe an approach to clustering the yeast protein-protein interaction network in order to identify functional modules, groups of proteins forming multi-protein complexes accomplishing various functions in the cell. We have developed a clustering method that accounts for the small-world nature of the network. The algorithm makes use of the concept of k-cores in a graph, and employs recursive spectral clustering to compute the functional modules. The computed clusters are annotated using their protein memberships into known multi-protein complexes in the yeast. We also dissect the protein interaction network into a global subnetwork of hub proteins (connected to several clusters), and a local network consisting of cluster proteins.