title: Prediction of protein-protein interactions: the CAPRI experiment, its evaluation and implications.
abstract: Given the increasing interest in protein-protein interactions, the prediction of these interactions from sequence and structural information has become a booming activity. CAPRI, the community-wide experiment for assessing blind predictions of protein-protein interactions, is playing an important role in fostering progress in docking procedures. At the same time, novel methods are being derived for predicting regions of a protein that are likely to interact and for characterizing putative intermolecular contacts from sequence and structural data. Together with docking procedures, these methods provide an integrated computational approach that should be a valuable complement to genome-scale experimental studies of protein-protein interactions.
authors.affiliation: Service de Conformation de macromolecules Biologique et Bioinformatique, Centre de Biologie Structurale et Bioinformatique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, CP 263, Boulevard du Triomphe, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium. shosh@ucmb.ulb.ac.be
authors.forename: Shoshana J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Wodak
authors.forename: Raúl
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Méndez
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D008958:Models, Molecular; D011485:Protein Binding; D017510:Protein Folding; D020539:Sequence Analysis, Protein