Hierarchical representation for PPI sites prediction.

Journal: BMC bioinformatics
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Protein-protein interactions have pivotal roles in life processes, and aberrant interactions are associated with various disorders. Interaction site identification is key for understanding disease mechanisms and design new drugs. Effective and efficient computational methods for the PPI prediction are of great value due to the overall cost of experimental methods. Promising results have been obtained using machine learning methods and deep learning techniques, but their effectiveness depends on protein representation and feature selection.

Authors

  • Michela Quadrini
    Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Via Gradenigo 6/A, 35131, Padua, Italy. michela.quadrini@unicam.it.
  • Sebastian Daberdaku
    Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, via Gradenigo 6/A, Padova, 35131, Italy. sebastian.daberdaku@dei.unipd.it.
  • Carlo Ferrari
    Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, via Gradenigo 6/A, Padova, 35131, Italy.