ppiTrim: Constructing non-redundant and up-to-date interactomes

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2011-03-07

arxiv.org/abs/1103.1402v3

Database (Oxford). 2011:bar036

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Molecular Networks

21 pages, 2 figures, 6 tables, 8 supplementary tables. Minor corrections of typos and similar

Scientific paper

10.1093/database/bar036

Robust advances in interactome analysis demand comprehensive, non-redundant and consistently annotated datasets. By non-redundant, we mean that the accounting of evidence for every interaction should be faithful: each independent experimental support is counted exactly once, no more, no less. While many interactions are shared among public repositories, none of them contains the complete known interactome for any model organism. In addition, the annotations of the same experimental result by different repositories often disagree. This brings up the issue of which annotation to keep while consolidating evidences that are the same. The iRefIndex database, including interactions from most popular repositories with a standardized protein nomenclature, represents a significant advance in all aspects, especially in comprehensiveness. However, iRefIndex aims to maintain all information/annotation from original sources and requires users to perform additional processing to fully achieve the aforementioned goals. To address issues with iRefIndex and to achieve our goals, we have developed ppiTrim, a script that processes iRefIndex to produce non-redundant, consistently annotated datasets of physical interactions. Our script proceeds in three stages: mapping all interactants to gene identifiers and removing all undesired raw interactions, deflating potentially expanded complexes, and reconciling for each interaction the annotation labels among different source databases. As an illustration, we have processed the three largest organismal datasets: yeast, human and fruitfly. While ppiTrim can resolve most apparent conflicts between different labelings, we also discovered some unresolvable disagreements mostly resulting from different annotation policies among repositories. URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/CBBresearch/Yu/downloads/ppiTrim.html

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