A context-sensitive framework for the analysis of human signalling pathways in molecular interaction networks.

ABSTRACT:

Motivation

A major challenge in systems biology is to reveal the cellular pathways that give rise to specific phenotypes and behaviours. Current techniques often rely on a network representation of molecular interactions, where each node represents a protein or a gene and each interaction is assigned a single static score. However, the use of single interaction scores fails to capture the tendency of proteins to favour different partners under distinct cellular conditions.

Results

Here, we propose a novel context-sensitive network model, in which genes and protein nodes are assigned multiple contexts based on their gene ontology annotations, and their interactions are associated with multiple context-sensitive scores. Using this model, we developed a new approach and a corre

SUBMITTER: Lan A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3694656 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature