ProRank+ - A Method for Detecting Protein Complexes in Protein Interaction Networks.

The course of developing effective medical treatments is typically based on the identification of disease-triggering protein complexes. In this paper, we present ProRank+, an effective method for detecting protein complexes in protein interaction networks. By assuming that complexes may overlap, the method uses a ranking algorithm to order proteins based on their importance in the network. In addition, a novel merging procedure is introduced to refine the predicted complexes in terms of their members. The experimental studies and results showed that ProRank+ outperforms several state-of-the-art methods in terms of the number of correctly-detected protein complexes using numerous quality measures.