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Topological network alignment aims to align two networks node-wise in order to maximize the observed common connection (edge) topology between them. The topological alignment of two Protein-Protein Interaction (PPI) networks should thus…
Network alignment aims to uncover topologically similar regions in the protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks of two or more species under the assumption that topologically similar regions tend to perform similar functions. Although…
Protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks provide valuable insights into the function of biological systems, and aligning multiple PPI networks can reveal important functional relationships between different species. However, assessing the…
The last decade has seen the advent and consolidation of ontology based tools for the identification and biological interpretation of classes of genes, such as the Gene Ontology. The information accumulated time-by-time and included in the…
Recent developments in next generation sequencing technology have led to the creation of extensive, open-source protein databases consisting of hundreds of millions of sequences. To render these sequences applicable in biomedical…
The increasing availability of high throughput data arising from gene expression studies leads to the necessity of methods for summarizing the available information. As annotation quality improves it is becoming common to rely on the Gene…
The Gene Ontology (GO) provides a knowledge base to effectively describe proteins. However, measuring similarity between proteins based on GO remains a challenge. In this paper, we propose a new similarity measure, information coefficient…
Aligning protein interaction networks (PPI) of two or more organisms consists of finding a mapping of the nodes (proteins) of the networks that captures important structural and functional associations (similarity). It is a well studied but…
Accurate prediction of protein function is essential for elucidating molecular mechanisms and advancing biological and therapeutic discovery. Yet experimental annotation lags far behind the rapid growth of protein sequence data.…
A large number of protein sequences are becoming available through the application of novel high-throughput sequencing technologies. Experimental functional characterization of these proteins is time-consuming and expensive, and is often…
The Gene Ontology (GO) is a major bioinformatics ontology that provides structured controlled vocabularies to classify gene and proteins function and role. The GO and its annotations to gene products are now an integral part of functional…
The present gap between the amount of available protein sequence due to the development of next generation sequencing technology (NGS) and slow and expensive experimental extraction of useful information like annotation of protein sequence…
In recent years, deep learning algorithms have outperformed the state-of-the art methods in several areas thanks to the efficient methods for training and for preventing overfitting, advancement in computer hardware, the availability of…
The Gene Ontology (GO) provides biologists with a controlled terminology that describes how genes are associated with functions and how functional terms are related to each other. These term-term relationships encode how scientists conceive…
Gene Ontology (GO) is the primary gene function knowledge base that enables computational tasks in biomedicine. The basic element of GO is a term, which includes a set of genes with the same function. Existing research efforts of GO mainly…
The Gene Ontology (GO) is a formidable resource but there are several considerations about it that are essential to understand the data and interpret it correctly. The GO is sufficiently simple that it can be used without deep understanding…
Automatic protein function prediction (AFP) is classified as a large-scale multi-label classification problem aimed at automating protein enrichment analysis to eliminate the current reliance on labor-intensive wet-lab methods. Currently,…
The function of a protein is defined by its interaction partners. Thus, topology-driven network alignment of the protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks of two species should uncover similar interaction patterns and allow identification…
Semantic similarity measures (SSMs) refer to a set of algorithms used to quantify the similarity of two or more terms belonging to the same ontology. Ontology terms may be associated to concepts, for instance in computational biology gene…
The alignment of biological networks has the potential to teach us as much about biology and disease as has sequence alignment. Sequence alignment can be optimally solved in polynomial time. In contrast, network alignment is $NP$-hard,…