Alignment of biological networks by integer linear programming: virus-host protein-protein interaction networks

Background: The alignment of protein-protein interaction networks was recently formulated as an integer quadratic programming problem, along with a linearization that can be solved by integer linear programming software tools. However, the resulting integer linear program has a huge number of variab...

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Autores: Llabrés Segura, Mercè, Riera Roca, Gabriel, Rosselló Llompart, Francesc A., Valiente Feruglio, Gabriel Alejandro|||0000-0001-9194-2703
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/334544
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/334544
https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12859-020-03733-w
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Computational biology
Protein research
Systems biology
Virus-host protein-protein interaction
Integer linear programming
Network alignment
Graph matching
Biologia computacional
Programació en nombres enters
Proteïnes -- Investigació
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Aplicacions de la informàtica::Bioinformàtica
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Sumario:Background: The alignment of protein-protein interaction networks was recently formulated as an integer quadratic programming problem, along with a linearization that can be solved by integer linear programming software tools. However, the resulting integer linear program has a huge number of variables and constraints, rendering it of no practical use. Results: We present a compact integer linear programming reformulation of the protein-protein interaction network alignment problem, which can be solved using state-of-the-art mathematical modeling and integer linear programming software tools, along with empirical results showing that small biological networks, such as virus-host protein-protein interaction networks, can be aligned in a reasonable amount of time on a personal computer and the resulting alignments are structurally coherent and biologically meaningful. Conclusions: The implementation of the integer linear programming reformulation using current mathematical modeling and integer linear programming software tools provided biologically meaningful alignments of virus-host protein-protein interaction networks.