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Protein-RNA interactions are of vital importance to a variety of cellular activities. Both experimental and computational techniques have been developed to study the interactions. Due to the limitation of the previous database, especially…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-11-24 Junkang Wei , Siyuan Chen , Licheng Zong , Xin Gao , Yu Li

Background:Typically, proteins perform key biological functions by interacting with each other. As a consequence, predicting which protein pairs interact is a fundamental problem. Experimental methods are slow, expensive, and may be error…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-02-08 Leonardo Martini , Adriano Fazzone , Luca Becchetti

Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) are governed by surface complementarity and hydrophobic interactions at protein interfaces. However, designing diverse and physically realistic protein structure and surfaces that precisely complement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Guanlue Li , Xufeng Zhao , Fang Wu , Sören Laue

Aptamers are single-stranded DNA/RNAs or short peptides with unique tertiary structures that selectively bind to specific targets. They have great potential in the detection and medical fields. Here, we present SelfTrans-Ensemble, a deep…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-23 Zhichao Yan , Yue Kang , Buyong Ma

Specific protein-protein interactions are crucial in the cell, both to ensure the formation and stability of multi-protein complexes, and to enable signal transduction in various pathways. Functional interactions between proteins result in…

Biological Physics · Physics 2016-11-21 Anne-Florence Bitbol , Robert S. Dwyer , Lucy J. Colwell , Ned S. Wingreen

Interaction between proteins is a fundamental mechanism that underlies virtually all biological processes. Many important interactions are conserved across a large variety of species. The need to maintain interaction leads to a high degree…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2016-02-25 Christoph Feinauer , Hendrik Szurmant , Martin Weigt , Andrea Pagnani

Understanding protein-protein interactions is central to our understanding of almost all complex biological processes. Computational tools exploiting rapidly growing genomic databases to characterize protein-protein interactions are…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2016-10-28 Thomas Gueudré , Carlo Baldassi , Marco Zamparo , Martin Weigt , Andrea Pagnani

Proteins interact with other proteins within biological pathways, forming connected subgraphs in the protein-protein interactome (PPI). Proteins are often involved in multiple biological pathways which complicates interpretation of…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2012-12-04 Sira Sriswasdi , Shane T. Jensen

Protein-peptide interactions play essential functional roles in living organisms and their structural characterization is a hot subject of current experimental and theoretical research. Computational modeling of the structure of…

Given native 2D contact map, protein 3D structure could be reconstructed with accuracy of 2A or better, and such reconstruction is a feasible computational approach for protein folding problem. The prediction accuracy from traditional…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2019-06-12 Yuhong Wang , Wei Li , Hongmao Sun , Kennie Cruz-Gutierrez

Protein-Protein Interactions (PPIs) are fundamental in various biological processes and play a key role in life activities. The growing demand and cost of experimental PPI assays require computational methods for efficient PPI prediction.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Lirong Wu , Yijun Tian , Yufei Huang , Siyuan Li , Haitao Lin , Nitesh V Chawla , Stan Z. Li

Nucleic acid-based drugs like aptamers have recently demonstrated great therapeutic potential. However, experimental platforms for aptamer screening are costly, and the scarcity of labeled data presents a challenge for supervised methods to…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-11-05 Tinglin Huang , Zhenqiao Song , Rex Ying , Wengong Jin

Identifying interactions between proteins is important to understand underlying biological processes. Extracting a protein-protein interaction (PPI) from the raw text is often very difficult. Previous supervised learning methods have used…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-08-10 Mahtab Ahmed , Jumayel Islam , Muhammad Rifayat Samee , Robert E. Mercer

Understanding the molecular determinants of specificity in protein-protein interaction is an outstanding challenge of postgenome biology. The availability of large protein databases generated from sequences of hundreds of bacterial genomes…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2009-01-12 M. Weigt , R. A. White , H. Szurmant , J. A. Hoch , T. Hwa

Protein-protein interactions drive many biological processes, including the detection of phytopathogens by plants' R-Proteins and cell surface receptors. Many machine learning studies have attempted to predict protein-protein interactions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Ruth Veevers , Dan MacLean

Motivation. Protein contact map describes the pairwise spatial and functional relationship of residues in a protein and contains key information for protein 3D structure prediction. Although studied extensively, it remains very challenging…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2014-01-21 Zhiyong Wang , Jinbo Xu

We model the evolution of eukaryotic protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks. In our model, PPI networks evolve by two known biological mechanisms: (1) Gene duplication, which is followed by rapid diversification of duplicate…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2015-01-07 Jack Peterson , Steve Presse , Kristin S. Peterson , Ken A. Dill

Cold-start drug-target interaction (DTI) prediction focuses on interaction between novel drugs and proteins. Previous methods typically learn transferable interaction patterns between structures of drug and proteins to tackle it. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Ziying Zhang , Yaqing Wang , Yuxuan Sun , Min Ye , Quanming Yao

Motivation: Protein interactions are fundamental building blocks of biochemical reaction systems underlying cellular functions. The complexity and functionality of such systems emerge not from the protein interactions themselves but from…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2011-06-15 Johannes Köster , Eli Zamir , Sven Rahmann

We introduce Bi-GNN for modeling biological link prediction tasks such as drug-drug interaction (DDI) and protein-protein interaction (PPI). Taking drug-drug interaction as an example, existing methods using machine learning either only…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Yunsheng Bai , Ken Gu , Yizhou Sun , Wei Wang