PCMiner: An extensible system for analysing and detecting protein complexes

Abstract

Protein complexes detection is a hot topic in bioinformatics. More and more researchers tend to detect the protein complexes from the Protein-Protein interaction networks. Since there are many approaches for detecting protein complexes, it will be great to integrate all approaches into a system, which can help researchers focus on analyzing. In this paper, we introduce PCMiner, an extensible system that integrates some state-of-arts protein complexes detection algorithms with distributed design and visualization technology. The system also provides application interfaces for researchers to implement their own approaches.