Abstract
With the recent sequencing of numerous complete genomes and the advent of high throughput technologies (e.g., yeast two-hybrid assays or tandem-affinity purification experiments), it is now possible to estimate the ancestral form of protein interaction networks. This chapter combines protein interaction data and comparative genomics techniques in an attempt to reconstruct a network of core proteins and interactions in yeast that potentially represents an ancestral state of the budding yeast protein interaction network.
Key words
- Ancestral state
- protein interaction networks
- phylogenetic profiles
- comparative genomics
- bioinformatics
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The author thanks John Parkinson for reading the manuscript and making useful comments. This work was supported by the Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) Research Training Center.
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Peregrín-Alvarez, J.M. (2008). Inferring Ancestral Protein Interaction Networks. In: Keith, J.M. (eds) Bioinformatics. Methods in Molecular Biology™, vol 452. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60327-159-2_19
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