A robust network alignment algorithm for detecting evolutionarily conserved networks and protein complexes across species

Yu Chun Lin*, Hsiang Yuan Yeh, Cheng Yu Yeh, Von Wun Soo

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Abstract

Due to the complexity of the biological networks, it is difficult to extract the conserved modules across species with graphical representation. One of the arising challenges is to compare different networks in order to analyze and discover common sub-networks, especially cliqued structure of protein complexes that may share similar biological functions. We combine sequence alignment and ontology-based semantic similarity score to cluster potential orthologous proteins and use depth-first search for network comparison to discover the conserved networks and protein complexes across species. This method allows the biological evolutions such as duplication and divergence to be tolerated in the network alignment process under a user specified value ε. We apply network alignment for two large protein-protein interactions (Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Caenorhabditis elegans) as our test data. We detect a large number of conserved networks and true complexes that match in the yeast MIPS database.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, BIOCOMP 2008
Pages1005-1011
Number of pages7
StatePublished - 2008
Externally publishedYes
Event2008 International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, BIOCOMP 2008 - Las Vegas, NV, United States
Duration: 14 07 200817 07 2008

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, BIOCOMP 2008

Conference

Conference2008 International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, BIOCOMP 2008
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityLas Vegas, NV
Period14/07/0817/07/08

Keywords

  • Across species
  • Networks comparison
  • Ontology-based semantic similarity
  • Protein complexes

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