Domain-Domain Interaction Identification with a Feature Selection Approach
Xing-Ming Zhao4
and Luonan Chen4 
| (4) |
Institute of Systems Biology, Shanghai University, 200444 Shanghai, China |
Abstract
The protein-protein interactions (PPIs) are generally assumed to be mediated by domain-domain interactions (DDIs). Many computational
methods have been proposed based on this assumption to predict DDIs from available data of PPIs. However, most of the existing
methods are generative methods that consider only PPI data without taking into account non-PPIs. In this paper, we propose
a novel discriminative method for predicting DDIs from both PPIs and non-PPIs, which improves the prediction reliability.
In particular, the DDI identification is formalized as a feature selection problem, which is equivalent to the parsimonious
principle and is able to predict both DDIs and PPIs in a systematic and accurate manner. The numerical results on benchmark
dataset demonstrate that formulating DDI prediction as a feature selection problem can predict DDIs from PPIs in a reliable
way, which in turn is able to verify and further predict PPIs based on inferred DDIs.
Keywords Discriminative approach - domain-domain interaction - feature selection - protein-protein interaction
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