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JSW 2014 Vol.9(5): 1157-1162
doi: 10.4304/jsw.9.5.1157-1162

Function prediction of proteins in yeast networks based on the MCL algorithm

Ke Zhan 1,2 , YunQuan Zhang 1,2,3

  • 1 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences ,Beijing 100190, China
  • 2 Laboratory of Parallel Software and Computational Science, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
  • 3 State Key Lab. of Computer Architecture, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China

Abstract

Large-scale Protein-Protein interaction data sets exist in Saccharomyces cerevisiae due to many interaction detection methods such as yeast two-hybrid assay, mass spectrometry of purified complexes, correlated mRNA expression profile and so on. How to make use of these data sets to understand the protein function is very important. We use the algorithm [17] developed by Stijn van Dongen to describe the functional modules in PPI networks.We analyze four protein-protein networks from Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and our results suggest that the functional modules detected are consistent with the biology knowledge. Protein- Protein interaction network was separated into clusters using MCL algorithm. Based on the clusters resulted from MCL algorithm, we assign the function annotations using Pvalue and majority methods. The majority method is based on the majority rule [15]. The predicted function of proteins provide clue to biology experiments. Two methods are used to assign function annotations for the known clusters and unknown proteins, we compare the two predicted results, the results show that the two methods are consistent with each other.

Keywords

  • function prediction
  • protein-protein in
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Ke Zhan and YunQuan Zhang, "Function prediction of proteins in yeast networks based on the MCL algorithm," Journal of Software, vol. 9, no. 5, pp. 1157-1162, 2014. https://doi.org/ 10.4304/jsw.9.5.1157-1162

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Copyright © 2014 by the authors. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited (CC BY 4.0).

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  • ISSN: 1796-217X (Online)

  • Abbreviated Title: J. Softw.

  • Frequency:  Biannually

  • APC: 500USD

  • DOI: 10.17706/JSW

  • Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Antanas Verikas

  • Executive Editor: Ms. Cecilia Xie

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