Computational prediction of protein-protein interactions

摘要

Researchers at the Carnegie Mellon University Language Technologies Institute (PA, USA) hope to understand the language and interaction of proteins by viewing gene sequences using computational linguistics. Scientists aim to differentiate between the interactive 'words' used by proteins and those 'which are not. Head researcher Judith Klein-Seetharaman, who won one of 104 grants for USDollars 100,000, says the study will attempt to "find a way so HIV is not the dominant communicator among proteins."