Utilizing knowledge base of amino acids structural neighborhoods to predict protein-protein interaction sites.

Journal: BMC bioinformatics
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Protein-protein interactions (PPI) play a key role in an investigation of various biochemical processes, and their identification is thus of great importance. Although computational prediction of which amino acids take part in a PPI has been an active field of research for some time, the quality of in-silico methods is still far from perfect.

Authors

  • Jan Jelínek
    Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Ke Karlovu 3, Prague 2, Czech Republic. jelinek@ksi.mff.cuni.cz.
  • Petr Škoda
    Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Ke Karlovu 3, Prague 2, Czech Republic.
  • David Hoksza
    Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Ke Karlovu 3, Prague 2, Czech Republic.