Estimating node degree in bait-prey graphs

Denise Scholtens, Tony Chiang, Wolfgang Huber, Robert Gentleman

Abstract: : Proteins work together to drive biological processes in cellular machines. Summarizing global and local properties of the set of protein interactions, the interactome, is necessary for describing cellular systems. We consider a relatively simple per-protein feature of the interactome: the number of interaction partners for a protein, which in graph terminology is the degree of the protein.