title: Computational approaches to protein-protein interaction.
abstract: The interactions between proteins allow the cell's life. A number of experimental, genome-wide, high-throughput studies have been devoted to the determination of protein-protein interactions and the consequent interaction networks. Here, the bioinformatics methods dealing with protein-protein interactions and interaction network are overviewed. 1. Interaction databases developed to collect and annotate this immense amount of data; 2. Automated data mining techniques developed to extract information about interactions from the published literature; 3. Computational methods to assess the experimental results developed as a consequence of the finding that the results of high-throughput methods are rather inaccurate; 4. Exploitation of the information provided by protein interaction networks in order to predict functional features of the proteins; and 5. Prediction of protein-protein interactions.
authors.affiliation: International School for Advanced Studies, Via Beirut 4, I-34014 Trieste, Italy.
authors.forename: Giacomo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Franzot
authors.forename: Oliviero
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Carugo
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001665:Binding Sites; D019295:Computational Biology; D030562:Databases, Protein; D008956:Models, Chemical; D011485:Protein Binding; D025941:Protein Interaction Mapping / Q000379:methods*; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*; D040901:Proteomics
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins