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STRINGdb (version 1.12.0)

ppi_enrichment: ppi_enrichment

Description

Computes the enrichment in protein-protein interactions.

Usage

ppi_enrichment(hitList, ppi_network)

Arguments

hitList
sorted list of proteins (from the most significant to the least significant)
ppi_network
an igraph object containing the graph of the protein-protein interaction's network.

Value

enrichment
pvalue that describes the probability to get such a number of interactions by chance
lambda
expected number of interactions

References

Pradines JR, Farutin V, Rowley S, Dancik V. Analyzing protein lists with large networks: edge-count probabilities in random graphs with given expected degrees. J. Comput. Biol. 2005;12:113-128. Franceschini, A et al. (2013). STRING v9.1: protein-protein interaction networks, with increased coverage and integration. In:Nucleic Acids Res. 2013 Jan;41(Database issue)