Predicting interactions in protein networks by completing defective cliques

  • Authors:
  • Haiyuan Yu;Alberto Paccanaro;Valery Trifonov;Mark Gerstein

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry 266 Whitney Avenue Yale University PO Box 208114;Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry 266 Whitney Avenue Yale University PO Box 208114;Department of Computer Science, Yale University New Haven, CT 06520-8285, USA;Department of Computer Science, Yale University New Haven, CT 06520-8285, USA

  • Venue:
  • Bioinformatics
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Datasets obtained by large-scale, high-throughput methods for detecting protein--protein interactions typically suffer from a relatively high level of noise. We describe a novel method for improving the quality of these datasets by predicting missed protein--protein interactions, using only the topology of the protein interaction network observed by the large-scale experiment. The central idea of the method is to search the protein interaction network for defective cliques (nearly complete complexes of pairwise interacting proteins), and predict the interactions that complete them. We formulate an algorithm for applying this method to large-scale networks, and show that in practice it is efficient and has good predictive performance. More information can be found on our website http://topnet.gersteinlab.org/clique/ Contact: Mark.Gerstein@yale.edu Supplementary information: Supplementary Materials are available at Bioinformatics online.