Method for conceptualizing protein interaction networks using gene ontology

摘要

Provided is a method for conceptualizing protein interaction networks. The method conceptualizes and simplifies complicated and enormous protein interaction networks wherein the method comprises the steps of (a) conceptualizing protein nodes that form the protein interaction network as gene ontology concepts to reconfigure the network; (b) integrating nodes including the same concepts in the reconfigured network into one node to generate the network by means of exact match; and (c) integrating several nodes having similar concepts in the generated network into one node to reconfigure the generated network by means of approximate match.