Information integration of protein-protein interactions as essential tools for immunomics

Cell Immunol. 2006 Dec;244(2):84-6. doi: 10.1016/j.cellimm.2006.12.008. Epub 2007 Apr 17.

Abstract

After a brief introduction to point out the necessity to advance for a global understanding of the macromolecular interactions occurring during the immune system development and responses, Section 2 will be devoted to analyse the current tools for an automatic location of information on these protein-protein interactions in the web. In the next section (Section 3), we will point out different action lines to improve these tools and, consequently, to increase the efficiency to establish (to understand) the "protein network skeleton" that controls our immune responses. Finally, we will briefly present our current strategy and work to advance towards this goal.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Computational Biology
  • Databases as Topic
  • Immune System / immunology
  • Immune System / physiology*
  • Protein Interaction Mapping*
  • Systems Biology / methods*