Dynamic identifying protein functional modules based on adaptive density modularity in protein-protein interaction networks.

Journal: BMC bioinformatics
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: The identification of protein functional modules would be a great aid in furthering our knowledge of the principles of cellular organization. Most existing algorithms for identifying protein functional modules have a common defect -- once a protein node is assigned to a functional module, there is no chance to move the protein to the other functional modules during the follow-up processes, which lead the erroneous partitioning occurred at previous step to accumulate till to the end.

Authors

  • Xianjun Shen
  • Li Yi
    State Key Laboratory of Biocatalysis and Enzyme Engineering, Hubei Engineering Research Center for Bio-enzyme Catalysis, Hubei Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Green Transformation of Bio-resources, College of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan, 430062, China. Electronic address: liyi@hubu.edu.cn.
  • Yang Yi
  • Jincai Yang
  • Tingting He
  • Xiaohua Hu
    Department of Information, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China.