title: Structural bioinformatics of the interactome.
abstract: The past decade has seen a dramatic expansion in the number and range of techniques available to obtain genome-wide information and to analyze this information so as to infer both the functions of individual molecules and how they interact to modulate the behavior of biological systems. Here, we review these techniques, focusing on the construction of physical protein-protein interaction networks, and highlighting approaches that incorporate protein structure, which is becoming an increasingly important component of systems-level computational techniques. We also discuss how network analyses are being applied to enhance our basic understanding of biological systems and their disregulation, as well as how these networks are being used in drug development.
authors.affiliation: Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Department of Systems Biology;
authors.forename: Donald
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Petrey
authors.forename: Barry
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Honig
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D060066:Protein Interaction Maps; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins
keywords: machine learning; network biology; protein-protein interaction; structural systems biology