MS-kNN: protein function prediction by integrating multiple data sources.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Protein function determination is a key challenge in the post-genomic era. Experimental determination of protein functions is accurate, but time-consuming and resource-intensive. A cost-effective alternative is to use the known information about sequence, structure, and functional properties of genes and proteins to predict functions using statistical methods. In this paper, we describe the Multi-Source k-Nearest Neighbor (MS-kNN) algorithm for function prediction, which finds k-nearest neighbors of a query protein based on different types of similarity measures and predicts its function by weighted averaging of its neighbors' functions. Specifically, we used 3 data sources to calculate the similarity scores: sequence similarity, protein-protein interactions, and gene ex

SUBMITTER: Lan L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3584913 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature