FACETS: multi-faceted functional decomposition of protein interaction networks
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Seah, Boon-Siew; Bhowmick, Sourav S.; Dewey, C. Forbes
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Motivation: The availability of large-scale curated protein interaction datasets has given rise to the opportunity to investigate higher level organization and modularity within the protein–protein interaction (PPI) network using graph theoretic analysis. Despite the recent progress, systems level analysis of high-throughput PPIs remains a daunting task because of the amount of data they present. In this article, we propose a novel PPI network decomposition algorithm called FACETS in order to make sense of the deluge of interaction data using Gene Ontology (GO) annotations. FACETS finds not just a single functional decomposition of the PPI network, but a multi-faceted atlas of functional decompositions that portray alternative perspectives of the functional landscape of the underlying PPI network. Each facet in the atlas represents a distinct interpretation of how the network can be functionally decomposed and organized. Our algorithm maximizes interpretative value of the atlas by optimizing inter-facet orthogonality and intra-facet cluster modularity.
Results: We tested our algorithm on the global networks from IntAct, and compared it with gold standard datasets from MIPS and KEGG. We demonstrated the performance of FACETS. We also performed a case study that illustrates the utility of our approach.
Date issued
2012-08Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biological EngineeringJournal
Bioinformatics
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Oxford University Press
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Seah, B.-S., S. S. Bhowmick, and C. Forbes Dewey. “FACETS: Multi-faceted Functional Decomposition of Protein Interaction Networks.” Bioinformatics 28.20 (2012): 2624–2631.
Version: Final published version
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1367-4803
1460-2059