title: A method for predicting protein complex in dynamic PPI networks.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Accurate determination of protein complexes has become a key task of system biology for revealing cellular organization and function. Up to now, the protein complex prediction methods are mostly focused on static protein protein interaction (PPI) networks. However, cellular systems are highly dynamic and responsive to cues from the environment. The shift from static PPI networks to dynamic PPI networks is essential to accurately predict protein complex.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The gene expression data contains crucial dynamic information of proteins and PPIs, along with high-throughput experimental PPI data, are valuable for protein complex prediction. Firstly, we exploit gene expression data to calculate the active time point and the active probability of each protein and PPI. The dynamic active information is integrated into high-throughput PPI data to construct dynamic PPI networks. Secondly, a novel method for predicting protein complexes from the dynamic PPI networks is proposed based on core-attachment structural feature. Our method can effectively exploit not only the dynamic active information but also the topology structure information based on the dynamic PPI networks.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We construct four dynamic PPI networks, and accurately predict many well-characterized protein complexes. The experimental results show that (i) the dynamic active information significantly improves the performance of protein complex prediction; (ii) our method can effectively make good use of both the dynamic active information and the topology structure information of dynamic PPI networks to achieve state-of-the-art protein complex prediction capabilities.
authors.affiliation: College of Computer Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology Dalian, Liaoning, China. zhyj@dlut.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Yijia
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: College of Computer Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology Dalian, Liaoning, China.
authors.forename: Hongfei
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.affiliation: College of Computer Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology Dalian, Liaoning, China.
authors.forename: Zhihao
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.affiliation: College of Computer Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology Dalian, Liaoning, China.
authors.forename: Jian
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: College of Computer Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology Dalian, Liaoning, China.
authors.forename: Yiwei
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: College of Computer Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology Dalian, Liaoning, China.
authors.forename: Shengtian
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sang
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D025941:Protein Interaction Mapping / Q000379:methods; D060066:Protein Interaction Maps; D011506:Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D059467:Transcriptome
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins