title: Whole-proteome prediction of protein function via graph-theoretic analysis of interaction maps.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Determining protein function is one of the most important problems in the post-genomic era. For the typical proteome, there are no functional annotations for one-third or more of its proteins. Recent high-throughput experiments have determined proteome-scale protein physical interaction maps for several organisms. These physical interactions are complemented by an abundance of data about other types of functional relationships between proteins, including genetic interactions, knowledge about co-expression and shared evolutionary history. Taken together, these pairwise linkages can be used to build whole-proteome protein interaction maps.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We develop a network-flow based algorithm, FunctionalFlow, that exploits the underlying structure of protein interaction maps in order to predict protein function. In cross-validation testing on the yeast proteome, we show that FunctionalFlow has improved performance over previous methods in predicting the function of proteins with few (or no) annotated protein neighbors. By comparing several methods that use protein interaction maps to predict protein function, we demonstrate that FunctionalFlow performs well because it takes advantage of both network topology and some measure of locality. Finally, we show that performance can be improved substantially as we consider multiple data sources and use them to create weighted interaction networks.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  http://compbio.cs.princeton.edu/function
authors.affiliation: Computer Science Department, Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.
authors.forename: Elena
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Nabieva
authors.forename: Kam
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Jim
authors.forename: Amit
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Agarwal
authors.forename: Bernard
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Chazelle
authors.forename: Mona
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Singh
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D005656:Fungal Proteins / Q000737:chemistry; D023281:Genomics; D015233:Models, Statistical; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D025941:Protein Interaction Mapping / Q000379:methods*; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry; D040901:Proteomics / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D005656:Fungal Proteins; D011506:Proteins