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Title: Discovering essential proteins based on PPI network and protein complex. Author: Ren J, Wang J, Li M, Wu F. Journal: Int J Data Min Bioinform; 2015; 12(1):24-43. PubMed ID: 26489140. Abstract: Most computational methods for identifying essential proteins focus on the topological centrality of protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks. However, these methods have limitations, such as the difficulty for identifying essential proteins with low centrality values and the poor performance for incomplete PPI network. In this paper, protein complex is proven to be an important factor for determining protein essentiality and a new centrality measure, complex centrality, is proposed. The weighted average of complex centrality and subgraph centrality, called harmonic centrality (HC), is proposed to predict essential proteins. It combines PPI network topology and protein complex information and has better performance than methods based on PPI network. The improvement is higher when the PPI network is incomplete. Furthermore, a weighted PPI network is generated by integrating cellular localisation and biological process to a PPI network. The performance of HC measure is improved 5% in this weighted PPI network.[Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]