Table of Contents:
  • A paradigm shift: from databases of protein sequences to protein interactions
  • Technologies for measuring interactions
  • Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP)
  • Yeast Two Hybrid (Y2H) technology
  • Mass spectrometry based approaches
  • Methods for querying protein networks with gene expression profiles
  • Systematic validation of protein network models using gene deletions
  • Cytoscape open-source software for network modeling and visualization
  • Methods for network comparison across species
  • Application to discover conserved protein complexes among the networks of yeast, worm, fly and Plasmodium
  • Methods for querying protein networks to explain genetic (synthetic lethal) interactions
  • Future directions: how network queries will enable systems biology