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Coverage and error models of protein-protein interaction data by directed graph analysis

Tony Chiang^1,2 , Denise Scholtens³ , Deepayan Sarkar² , Robert Gentleman² and Wolfgang Huber¹

¹  EMBL, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SD, UK

²  Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Computational Biology Group, Fairview Avenue North, Seattle, WA 98109-1024, USA

³  Northwestern University, Department of Preventive Medicine, N Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60611-4402, USA

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Genome Biology 2007, 8:R186doi:10.1186/gb-2007-8-9-r186

Published:	10 September 2007

Subject areas: Bioinformatics, Methods, Genome studies, Model organisms

Abstract

Using a directed graph model for bait to prey systems and a multinomial error model, we assessed the error statistics in all published large-scale datasets for Saccharomyces cerevisiae and characterized them by three traits: the set of tested interactions, artifacts that lead to false-positive or false-negative observations, and estimates of the stochastic error rates that affect the data. These traits provide a prerequisite for the estimation of the protein interactome and its modules.