Protein Complexes Identification with Family-Wise Error Rate Control

Dopcc: Detecting Overlapping Protein Complexes via Multi-Metrics and Co-Core Attachment Method

Identification of protein complex is an important issue in the field of system biology, which is crucial to understanding the cellular organization and inferring protein functions. Recently, many computational methods have been proposed to detect protein complexes from protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks. However, most of these methods only focus on local information of proteins in the PPI network, which are easily affected by the noise in the PPI network. Meanwhile, it's still challenging to detect protein complexes, especially for overlapping cases. To address these issues, we propose a new method, named Dopcc, to detect overlapping protein complexes by constructing a multi-metrics network according to different strategies. First, we adopt the Jaccard coefficient to measure the neighbor similarity between proteins and denoise the PPI network. Then, we propose a new strategy, integrating hierarchical compressing with network embedding, to capture the high-order structural similarity between proteins. Further, a new co-core attachment strategy is proposed to detect overlapping protein complexes from multi-metrics. The experimental results show that our proposed method, Dopcc, outperforms the other eight state-of-the-art methods in terms of F-measure, MMR, and Composite Score on two yeast datasets.

idenPC-CAP: Identify protein complexes from weighted RNA-protein heterogeneous interaction networks using co-assemble partner relation

Protein complexes play important roles in most cellular processes. The available genome-wide protein-protein interaction (PPI) data make it possible for computational methods identifying protein complexes from PPI networks. However, PPI datasets usually contain a large ratio of false positive noise. Moreover, different types of biomolecules in a living cell cooperate to form a union interaction network. Because previous computational methods focus only on PPIs ignoring other types of biomolecule interactions, their predicted protein complexes often contain many false positive proteins. In this study, we develop a novel computational method idenPC-CAP to identify protein complexes from the RNA-protein heterogeneous interaction network consisting of RNA-RNA interactions, RNA-protein interactions and PPIs. By considering interactions among proteins and RNAs, the new method reduces the ratio of false positive proteins in predicted protein complexes. The experimental results demonstrate that idenPC-CAP outperforms the other state-of-the-art methods in this field.

idenPC-MIIP: identify protein complexes from weighted PPI networks using mutual important interacting partner relation

Protein complexes are key units for studying a cell system. During the past decades, the genome-scale protein-protein interaction (PPI) data have been determined by high-throughput approaches, which enables the identification of protein complexes from PPI networks. However, the high-throughput approaches often produce considerable fraction of false positive and negative samples. In this study, we propose the mutual important interacting partner relation to reflect the co-complex relationship of two proteins based on their interaction neighborhoods. In addition, a new algorithm called idenPC-MIIP is developed to identify protein complexes from weighted PPI networks. The experimental results on two widely used datasets show that idenPC-MIIP outperforms 17 state-of-the-art methods, especially for identification of small protein complexes with only two or three proteins.