Parallel Protein Community Detection in Large-scale PPI Networks Based on Multi-source Learning

17 Oct 2018  ·  Chen Jianguo, Li Kenli, Bilal Kashif, Metwally Ahmed A., Li Keqin, Yu Philip S. ·

Protein interactions constitute the fundamental building block of almost every life activity. Identifying protein communities from Protein-Protein Interaction (PPI) networks is essential to understand the principles of cellular organization and explore the causes of various diseases. It is critical to integrate multiple data resources to identify reliable protein communities that have biological significance and improve the performance of community detection methods for large-scale PPI networks. In this paper, we propose a Multi-source Learning based Protein Community Detection (MLPCD) algorithm by integrating Gene Expression Data (GED) and a parallel solution of MLPCD using cloud computing technology. To effectively discover the biological functions of proteins that participating in different cellular processes, GED under different conditions is integrated with the original PPI network to reconstruct a Weighted-PPI (WPPI) network. To flexibly identify protein communities of different scales, we define community modularity and functional cohesion measurements and detect protein communities from WPPI using an agglomerative method. In addition, we respectively compare the detected communities with known protein complexes and evaluate the functional enrichment of protein function modules using Gene Ontology annotations. Moreover, we implement a parallel version of the MLPCD algorithm on the Apache Spark platform to enhance the performance of the algorithm for large-scale realistic PPI networks. Extensive experimental results indicate the superiority and notable advantages of the MLPCD algorithm over the relevant algorithms in terms of accuracy and performance.

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