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protein complexes |
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protein interactomes |
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drug resistance |
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infectious diseases |
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Limsoon Wong |
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Guimei Liu |
Protein Interactome Analysis for Countering Pathogen Drug Resistance
Limsoon Wong and Guimei Liu
School of Computing, National University of Singapore, 13 Computing Drive, Singapore 117417
Drug-resistant varieties of pathogens are now a recognized global threat. Insights into the routes for drug resistance in these pathogens are critical for developing more effective antibacterial drugs. A systems-level analysis of the genes, proteins, and interactions involved is an important step to gaining such insights. This paper discusses some of the computational challenges that must be surmounted to enable such an analysis; viz., unreliability of bacterial interactome maps, paucity of bacterial interactome maps, and identification of pathways to bacterial drug resistance.
This work was supported in part by Singapore National Research Foundation under Grant No. NRF-G-CRP-2997-04-082(d).
Limsoon Wong is concurrently a professor of computer science and a professor of pathology at the National University of Singapore. He works mostly on knowledge discovery technologies and their application to biomedicine. He serves on the editorial boards of Information Systems (Elsevier), Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (ICP), Bioinformatics (OUP), and Drug Discovery Today (Elsevier). He is a scientific advisor to Semantic Discovery Systems (UK), Molecular Connections (India), and CellSafe International (Malaysia).
Guimei Liu is a senior research fellow at National University of Singapore School of Computing. She received her Ph.D. degree in computer science from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2005. Her current research interests include frequent pattern mining and its applications, and protein interaction networks mining and analysis.