Profppikernel
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Description
Profppikernel uses an accelerated version of the original profile kernel [1] to automatically train SVM based protein-protein interaction (PPI) prediction models.
The main executable is profppikernel.
It uses profkernel-core (accelarated profile kernel) and trains or applies a SVM based PPI prediction model. It provides two modes of operation. In the first mode, 'training', the user provides evolutionary protein profiles and PPIs between them (labels) as input and profppikernel outputs a folder with all model files required for predictions. In the second mode, 'prediction', the user provides the path to such a model folder and to the query profiles and PPIs. profppikernel then predicts their probability to interact.
Availability
We have included both executables in a .tar.gz source package, together with a sample classification problem. Download it here and compile and install it with the included make based installation (see the included README file).
Best human predictions
We have predicted all protein pairs in human for which both (C3) or one (C2) protein are sequence-dissimilar to known reliably annotated human interactions. The best 100,000 predictions in either class can be downloaded here.
Bugs and Other Issues
Please report bugs and other issues via Bugzilla.
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Contact
For questions, please contact hampt@rostlab.org