Tissue-specific subnetworks and characteristics of publicly available human protein interaction databases
Author(s) -
Tiago J. S. Lopes,
Martin H. Schaefer,
Jason E. Shoemaker,
Yukiko Matsuoka,
Jean−Fred Fontaine,
Gabriele Neumann,
Miguel A. AndradeNavarro,
Yoshihiro Kawaoka,
Hiroaki Kitano
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
bioinformatics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1367-4811
pISSN - 1367-4803
DOI - 10.1093/bioinformatics/btr414
Subject(s) - database , computer science , protein–protein interaction , interaction information , interaction network , expression (computer science) , computational biology , data mining , gene , biology , genetics , statistics , mathematics , programming language
Protein-protein interaction (PPI) databases are widely used tools to study cellular pathways and networks; however, there are several databases available that still do not account for cell type-specific differences. Here, we evaluated the characteristics of six interaction databases, incorporated tissue-specific gene expression information and finally, investigated if the most popular proteins of scientific literature are involved in good quality interactions.
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