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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2010

Semi-supervised multi-task learning for predicting interactions between HIV-1 and human proteins.

Yanjun Qi, Oznur Tastan, Jaime G Carbonell, Judith Klein-Seetharaman, Jason Weston

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Article in Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers.

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5 authors.

Yanjun QiNEC Labs America, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA. qyj@cs.cmu.edu
Oznur Tastan
Jaime G Carbonell
Judith Klein-Seetharaman
Jason Weston

Funding

X-Ray Core P50GM082251 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI CALERO, GUILLERMO ALBERTO · 2007 to 2018
$48.1M
Bridging Sequence Patterns and Structural DynamicsR01LM007994 · NLM · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI BAHAR, IVET · 2004 to 2011
$3.0M
NIGMS NIH HHS P50 GM082251NIGMS NIH HHS P50-GM082251NLM NIH HHS LM07994-01
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

motivationProtein-protein interactions (PPIs) are critical for virtually every biological function. Recently, researchers suggested to use supervised learning for the task of classifying pairs of proteins as interacting or not. However, its performance is largely restricted by the availability of truly interacting proteins (labeled). Meanwhile, there exists a considerable amount of protein pairs where an association appears between two partners, but not enough experimental evidence to support it as a direct interaction (partially labeled).

resultsWe propose a semi-supervised multi-task framework for predicting PPIs from not only labeled, but also partially labeled reference sets. The basic idea is to perform multi-task learning on a supervised classification task and a semi-supervised auxiliary task. The supervised classifier trains a multi-layer perceptron network for PPI predictions from labeled examples. The semi-supervised auxiliary task shares network layers of the supervised classifier and trains with partially labeled examples. Semi-supervision could be utilized in multiple ways. We tried three approaches in this article, (i) classification (to distinguish partial positives with negatives); (ii) ranking (to rate partial positive more likely than negatives); (iii) embedding (to make data clusters get similar labels). We applied this framework to improve the identification of interacting pairs between HIV-1 and human proteins. Our method improved upon the state-of-the-art method for this task indicating the benefits of semi-supervised multi-task learning using auxiliary information. AVAILABILITY: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~qyj/HIVsemi.

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Artificial IntelligenceAlgorithmsComputational BiologyData Interpretation, StatisticalHIV-1Human Immunodeficiency Virus ProteinsHumansModels, StatisticalProtein Interaction MappingProteinsHuman Immunodeficiency Virus ProteinsProteins

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PMCPMC2935441

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