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Improved network community structure improves function prediction.

ABSTRACT: We are overwhelmed by experimental data, and need better ways to understand large interaction datasets. While clustering related nodes in such networks-known as community detection-appears a promising approach, detecting such communities is computationally difficult. Further, how to best use such community information has not been determined. Here, within the context of protein function prediction, we address both issues. First, we apply a novel method that generates improved modularity solutions than the current state of the art. Second, we develop a better method to use this community information to predict proteins' functions. We discuss when and why this community information is important. Our results should be useful for two distinct scientific communities: first, those using various cost functions to detect community structure, where our new optimization approach will improve solutions, and second, those working to extract novel functional information about individual nodes from large interaction datasets.

SUBMITTER: Lee J

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3711050 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Improved network community structure improves function prediction.

Lee Juyong J Gross Steven P SP Lee Jooyoung J

Scientific reports 20130101

We are overwhelmed by experimental data, and need better ways to understand large interaction datasets. While clustering related nodes in such networks-known as community detection-appears a promising approach, detecting such communities is computationally difficult. Further, how to best use such community information has not been determined. Here, within the context of protein function prediction, we address both issues. First, we apply a novel method that generates improved modularity solution ...[more]

PMID: 23852097

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Project description:BackgroundPhylogenetic approaches are commonly used to predict which amino acid residues are critical to the function of a given protein. However, such approaches display inherent limitations, such as the requirement for identification of multiple homologues of the protein under consideration. Therefore, complementary or alternative approaches for the prediction of critical residues would be desirable. Network analyses have been used in the modelling of many complex biological systems, but only very recently have they been used to predict critical residues from a protein's three-dimensional structure. Here we compare a couple of phylogenetic approaches to several different network-based methods for the prediction of critical residues, and show that a combination of one phylogenetic method and one network-based method is superior to other methods previously employed.ResultsWe associate a network with each member of a set of proteins for which the three-dimensional structure is known and the critical residues have been previously determined experimentally. We show that several network-based centrality measurements (connectivity, 2-connectivity, closeness centrality, betweenness and cluster coefficient) accurately detect residues critical for the protein's function. Phylogenetic approaches render predictions as reliable as the network-based measurements, although, interestingly, the two general approaches tend to predict different sets of critical residues. Hence we propose a hybrid method that is composed of one network-based calculation--the closeness centrality--and one phylogenetic approach--the Conseq server. This hybrid approach predicts critical residues more accurately than the other methods tested here.ConclusionWe show that network analysis can be used to improve the prediction of amino acids critical for protein function, when utilized in combination with phylogenetic approaches. It is proposed that such improvement is due to the complementary nature of these approaches: network-based methods tend to predict as critical those residues that are highly connected and internal (i.e., non-surface), although some surface residues are indeed identified as critical by network analyses; whereas residues chosen by phylogenetic approaches display a lower overall probability of being surface inaccessible.

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Improved network community structure improves function prediction.

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Improved network community structure improves function prediction.

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