Understanding protein-protein interaction (PPI) is important in order to understand cellular processes. X-ray crystallography and mutagenesis, expensive methods both in time and resources, are the most reliable methods for detecting PPI. Computational approaches could, therefore, reduce resources and time spent on detecting PPIs. During this master thesis a method, cProQPred, was created for scoring how realistic coarse PPI models are. cProQPred use the machine learning method Random Forest trained on previously calculated features from the programs ProQDock and InterPred. By combining some of ProQDock’s features and the InterPred score from InterPred the cProQPred method generated a higher performance than both ProQDock and InterPred. This work also tried to predict the quality of the PPI model after refinement and the chance for a coarse PPI model to succeed at refinement. The result illustrated that the predicted quality of a coarse PPI model also was a relatively good prediction of the quality the coarse PPI model would get after refinement. Prediction of the chance for a coarse PPI model to succeed at refinement was, however, without success.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:liu-133633 |
| Date | January 2016 |
| Creators | Rörbrink, Malin |
| Publisher | Linköpings universitet, Bioinformatik |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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