Title: NAPAbench 2: A network synthesis algorithm for generating realistic protein-protein interaction (PPI) network families

Journal Article · · PLoS ONE
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  1. Texas A & M Univ., College Station, TX (United States). Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering; DOE/OSTI
  2. Incheon National Univ. (Korea, Republic of). Dept. of Mechatronics Engineering
  3. Texas A & M Univ., College Station, TX (United States). Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Texas A & M Univ., College Station, TX (United States). TEES-AgriLife Center for Bioinformatics and Genomic Systems Engineering; Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). Computational Science Initiative

Comparative network analysis provides effective computational means for gaining novel insights into the structural and functional compositions of biological networks. In recent years, various methods have been developed for biological network alignment, whose main goal is to identify important similarities and critical differences between networks in terms of their topology and composition. A major impediment to advancing network alignment techniques has been the lack of gold-standard benchmarks that can be used for accurate and comprehensive performance assessment of such algorithms. The original NAPAbench (network alignment performance assessment benchmark) was developed to address this problem, and it has been widely utilized by many researchers for the development, evaluation, and comparison of novel network alignment techniques. In this work, we introduce NAPAbench 2—a major update of the original NAPAbench that was introduced in 2012. NAPAbench 2 includes a completely redesigned network synthesis algorithm that can generate protein-protein interaction (PPI) network families whose characteristics closely match those of the latest real PPI networks. Furthermore, the network synthesis algorithm comes with an intuitive GUI that allows users to easily generate PPI network families with an arbitrary number of networks of any size, according to a flexible user-defined phylogeny. In addition, NAPAbench 2 provides updated benchmark datasets—created using the redesigned network synthesis algorithm—which can be used for comprehensive performance assessment of network alignment algorithms and their scalability.

Research Organization:
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Scientific User Facilities Division
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0012704
OSTI ID:
1629157
Journal Information:
PLoS ONE, Journal Name: PLoS ONE Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 15; ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher:
Public Library of ScienceCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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