Going the distance for protein function prediction: a new distance metric for protein interaction networks
Date
2013
Authors
Cao, Mengfei
Zhang, Hao
Park, Jisoo
Hescott, Benjamin
Daniels, Noah M.
Crovella, Mark E.
Cowen, Lenore J.
Version
OA Version
Citation
Cao M, Zhang H, Park J, Daniels NM, Crovella ME, Cowen LJ, et al. (2013) Going the Distance for Protein Function Prediction: A New Distance Metric for Protein Interaction Networks. PLoS ONE 8(10): e76339. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0076339
Abstract
In protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks, functional similarity is often inferred based on the function of directly interacting proteins, or more generally, some notion of interaction network proximity among proteins in a local neighborhood. Prior methods typically measure proximity as the shortest-path distance in the network, but this has only a limited ability to capture fine-grained neighborhood distinctions, because most proteins are close to each other, and there are many ties in proximity. We introduce diffusion state distance (DSD), a new metric based on a graph diffusion property, designed to capture finer-grained distinctions in proximity for transfer of functional annotation in PPI networks. We present a tool that, when input a PPI network, will output the DSD distances between every pair of proteins. We show that replacing the shortest-path metric by DSD improves the performance of classical function prediction methods across the board.
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License
Attribution 4.0 United States