Automated computational inference of multi-protein assemblies from biochemical co-purification data

Abstract

Biology has amassed a wealth of information about the function of a multitude of protein-coding genes across species. The challenge now is to understand how all these proteins work together to form a living organism, and a crucial step for gaining this knowledge is a complete description of the molecular “wiring circuits” that underlie cellular processes. In this chapter, we describe a general computational framework for predicting multi-protein assemblies from biochemical co-fractionation data.