Identifying protein complexes in PPI network using non-cooperative sequential game.

ABSTRACT: Identifying protein complexes from protein-protein interaction (PPI) network is an important and challenging task in computational biology as it helps in better understanding of cellular mechanisms in various organisms. In this paper we propose a noncooperative sequential game based model for protein complex detection from PPI network. The key hypothesis is that protein complex formation is driven by mechanism that eventually optimizes the number of interactions within the complex leading to dense subgraph. The hypothesis is drawn from the observed network property named small world. The proposed multi-player game model translates the hypothesis into the game strategies. The Nash equilibrium of the game corresponds to a network partition where each protein either belong to a complex or for

SUBMITTER: Maulik U 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5566343 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature