PMID- 21155019 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20110330 LR - 20191210 IS - 1757-6334 (Electronic) IS - 0219-7200 (Linking) VI - 8 Suppl 1 DP - 2010 Dec TI - A method based on local density and random walks for complexes detection in protein interaction networks. PG - 47-62 AB - In this paper, we present a method based on local density and random walks (LDRW) for core-attachment complexes detection in protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks whether they are weighted or not. Our LDRW method consists of two stages. Firstly, it finds all the protein-complex cores based on local density of subnetwork. Then it uses random walks with restarts for finding the attachment proteins of each detected core to form complexes. We evaluate the effectiveness of our method using two different yeast PPI networks and validate the biological significance of the predicted protein complexes using known complexes in the Munich Information Center for Protein Sequence (MIPS) and Gene Ontology (GO) databases. We also perform a comprehensive comparison between our method and other existing methods. The results show that our method can find more protein complexes with high biological significance and obtains a significant improvement. Furthermore, our method is able to identify biologically significant overlapped protein complexes. FAU - Yu, Liang AU - Yu L AD - School of Computer Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi'an, P R China. lyu@xidian.edu.cn FAU - Gao, Lin AU - Gao L FAU - Li, Kui AU - Li K LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PT - Validation Study PL - Singapore TA - J Bioinform Comput Biol JT - Journal of bioinformatics and computational biology JID - 101187344 RN - 0 (Multiprotein Complexes) SB - IM MH - Algorithms MH - *Computational Biology MH - Data Mining MH - Databases, Protein MH - Multiprotein Complexes MH - Protein Interaction Mapping/*statistics & numerical data MH - Systems Biology EDAT- 2010/12/15 06:00 MHDA- 2011/03/31 06:00 CRDT- 2010/12/15 06:00 PHST- 2010/07/15 00:00 [received] PHST- 2010/08/25 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2010/09/10 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2010/12/15 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2010/12/15 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2011/03/31 06:00 [medline] AID - S0219720010005191 [pii] AID - 10.1142/s0219720010005191 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Bioinform Comput Biol. 2010 Dec;8 Suppl 1:47-62. doi: 10.1142/s0219720010005191.