We describe an approach for computational prediction of protein-protein interaction sites using a support vector machine (SVM) classifier. Interface residues and other surface residues were extracted from 115 proteins derived from a set of 70 heterocomplexes in PDB. The SVM classifier was trained to predict whether or not a surface residue is located in the interface based on the identity of th...

PocketQuery (http://pocketquery.csb.pitt.edu) is a web interface for exploring the properties of protein-protein interaction (PPI) interfaces with a focus on the discovery of promising starting points for small-molecule design. PocketQuery rapidly focuses attention on the key interacting residues of an interaction using a 'druggability' score that provides an estimate of how likely the chemical...

Comorbidty is common among psychiatric disorders including obsessive-compulsive disorder and schizophrenia with a high rate. Many studies suggested that the disorders may have same etiological bases. In this regard, shared pathways of glutamate, dopaminergic, and serotonin are the known ones. Here, the common significant genes are examined to understand the possible molecular origin of the diso...