Prediction of Protein-Protein Interactions Using Support Vector Machines

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  • BIBE '04 Proceedings of the 4th IEEE Symposium on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering
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  • 2004

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Abstract

Protein-protein interactions play a crucial role in thecellular process. Although recent studies haveelucidated a huge amount of protein-proteininteractions within Saccharomyces cerevisiae, manystill remain to be identified. This paper presents a newinteraction prediction method that associates domainsand other protein features by using Support VectorMachines (SVMs), and it reports the results ofinvestigating the effect of those protein features on theprediction accuracy. Cross-validation tests revealedthat the highest F-measure of 79%, was obtained bycombining the features "domain," "amino acidcomposition," and "subcellular localization." Theseprediction results were more accurate than thepredictions reported previously. Furthermore,predicting the interaction of unknown protein pairsrevealed that high-scoring protein pairs tend to sharesimilar GO annotations in the biological processhierarchy. This method can be applied across species.