Measuring Boundedness for Protein Complex Identification in PPI Networks

The problem of identifying protein complexes in Protein-Protein Interaction (PPI) networks is usually formulated as the problem of identifying dense regions in such networks. In this paper, we present a novel approach, called TBPCI, to identify protein complexes based instead on the concept of a measure of boundedness. Such a measure is defined as an objective function of a Jaccard Index-based connectedness measure which takes into consideration how much two proteins within a network are connected to each other, and an association measure which takes into consideration how much two connecting proteins are associated based on their attributes found in the Gene Ontology database. Based on the above two measures, the objective function is derived to capture how strong the proteins can be considered as bounded together and the objective value is therefore referred as the aggregated degree of boundedness. To identify protein complexes, TBPCI computes the degree of boundedness between all possible pairwise proteins. Then, TBPCI uses a Breadth-First-Search method to determine whether a protein-pair should be incorporated into the same complex. TBPCI has been tested with several real data sets and the experimental results show it is an effective approach for identifying protein complexes in PPI networks.

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