Abstract
Abstract In recent years, the biomolecular sciences have been driven forward by overwhelming advances in new biotechnological high‐throughput experimental methods and bioinformatic genome‐wide computational methods. Such breakthroughs are producing huge amounts of new data that need to be carefully analysed to obtain correct and useful scientific knowledge. One of the fields where this advance has become more intense is the study of the network of ‘protein–protein interactions’, i.e. the ‘interactome’. In this short review we comment on the main data and databases produced in this field in last 5 years. We also present a rationalized scheme of biological definitions that will be useful for a better understanding and interpretation of ‘what a protein–protein interaction is’ and ‘which types of protein–protein interactions are found in a living cell’. Finally, we comment on some assignments of interactome data to defined types of protein interaction and we present a new bioinformatic tool called APIN (Agile Protein Interaction Network browser), which is in development and will be applied to browsing protein interaction databases. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Keywords
InteractomeComputer scienceField (mathematics)Protein–protein interactionData scienceInteraction networkBiological dataComputational biologyBioinformaticsBiology
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- 5
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- 2
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- 173-178
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Javier De Las Rivas,
Alberto de Luis
(2004).
Interactome data and databases: different types of protein interaction.
Comparative and Functional Genomics
, 5
(2)
, 173-178.
https://doi.org/10.1002/cfg.377
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- 10.1002/cfg.377