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Databases for Protein–Protein Interactions

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Proteomics Data Analysis

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Protein–protein interaction networks have a crucial role in biological processes. Proteins perform multiple functions in forming physical and functional interactions in cellular systems. Information concerning an enormous number of protein interactions in a wide range of species has accumulated and has been integrated into various resources for molecular biology and systems biology. This chapter provides a review of the representative databases and the major computational methods used for protein–protein interactions.

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This work is supported by JSPS Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (17H06331, 20K19916, 18H04113).

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Nakajima, N., Akutsu, T., Nakato, R. (2021). Databases for Protein–Protein Interactions. In: Cecconi, D. (eds) Proteomics Data Analysis. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2361. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-1641-3_14

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