Abstract:
Protein-protein interactions represent one of the most diverse set of phenomenon found in nature. An analysis of protein-protein interactions is critical for understanding of pathways. There are a variety of methods that are used to generate interactions data. It is the integration of this data, which will help to highlight the correct information. There are many existing methods that have already been implemented as well as others that are in the process of implementation.
The current and future work, which will create the framework for a better understanding of these protein-protein interactions, will be discussed.

Speaker
Prasanna Kolatkar (PK) is currently at the Genome Institute of Singapore as Group Leader.
PK previously held appointments at the Bioinformatics Centre-IMCB and Bioinformatics Centre.
PK obtained his undergraduate degree at Augustana College, Rock Island, IL in 1985 and PhD at The University of Texas at Austin in 1991 in Dept of Chemistry. Subsequently he was a post-doc with Michael Rossmann at Purdue University till 1997.
PK also obtained the following awards: EAKIN Award for Research Excellence (Graduate Research), 1991; Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research (Post-doc) 1992-1995;
Outstanding University Research Award, NUS in 1999. Recently he has been involved with production of a pipeline for annotating zebrafish transcriptome and has implemented and additionally developing a database to help store and analyze protein-protein interactions. He is also undertaking projects dealing with X-ray crystallography and merging this information with the protein-protein interactions database.