A General Model for Amino Acid Interaction Networks.

Omar Gaci (1) , Stefan Balev (1)

1 LITIS - Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Traitement de l'Information et des Systèmes

In this paper we introduce the notion of protein interaction network. This is a graph whose vertices are the protein's amino acids and whose edges are the interactions between them. Using a graph theory approach, we identify a number of properties of these networks. We compare them to the general small-world network model and we analyze their hierarchical structure.

Mots clés: small-world network; interaction network; protein structure; small-world network.

Domaines: Bio-informatique [q-bio.QM]; Bio-Informatique, Biologie Systémique [q-bio.QM]

Omar Gaci, Stefan Balev. A General Model for Amino Acid Interaction Networks.. The 5th International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational and Systems Biology., Oct 2008, Venise, Italy. pp.401-405. ⟨hal-00431269⟩