title: NASCENT: an automatic protein interaction network generation tool for non-model organisms.
abstract: Large quantity of reliable protein interaction data are available for model organisms in public depositories (e.g., MINT, DIP, HPRD, INTERACT). Most data correspond to experiments with the proteins of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Drosophila melanogaster, Homo sapiens, Caenorhabditis elegans, Escherichia coli and Mus musculus. For other important organisms the data availability is poor or non-existent. Here we present NASCENT, a completely automatic web-based tool and also a downloadable Java program, capable of modeling and generating protein interaction networks even for non-model organisms. The tool performs protein interaction network modeling through gene-name mapping, and outputs the resulting network in graphical form and also in computer-readable graph-forms, directly applicable by popular network modeling software.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  http://nascent.pitgroup.org.
authors.affiliation: Protein Information Technology Group, Eotvos University, H-1117 Budapest, Hungary.
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authors.lastname: Banky
authors.forename: Rafael
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authors.lastname: Ordog
authors.forename: Vince
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Grolmusz
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