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We will use The Human Protein Atlas to find the 41 genes associated to large deletions in cancer
https://www.proteinatlas.org/
1. Choose : The tissue -> Go to the Human Subproteomes and choose The cancer proteome -> Select the large deletions genes
* Choose : The tissue -> Go to the Human Subproteomes and choose The cancer proteome -> Select the large deletions genes
2. Download the table as a .tsv file
* Download the table as a .tsv file
3. Open in Excel and choose one column as gene identifier : copy it to clipboard
* Open in Excel and choose one column as gene identifier : copy it to clipboard
## Looking for the gene interactors
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https://string-db.org/
1. Search -> Multiple proteins and paste list
2. Select organism and click the search button
3. Check the mapping, are they your prots ? How many ?
4. Click the continue button
* Search -> Multiple proteins and paste list
* Select organism and click the search button
* Check the mapping, are they your prots ? How many ?
* Click the continue button
## Exploring your network
### Check the legend tab to understand the network components
5. What do nodes represent?
What do edges represent ?
What are the figures inside the nodes ?
1. What do nodes represent?
2. What do edges represent ?
3. What are the figures inside the nodes ?
### Check the settings tab to change the network options
6. What types of networks can you display ?
4. What types of networks can you display ?
What kind of interaction sources do you have in this netwrok ?
5. What kind of interaction sources do you have in this netwrok ?
Choose to see both functional and physical associations and that the edges represent the confidence of the data
Remove the protein structures previews
Remove the protein structure preview
### Check the analysis tab to explore the network's main statistics
7. How many proteins does the network have ?
8. How many interactions does the network have ?
9. How many interactions is this network expected to have if it were a random list of proteins ?
10. How many interactions does each protein have on average ?
### Check the analysis tab to explore the functional enrichment of the network
11. Which proteins belong to the Fanconi anemia KEGG pathway ?
12. How many proteins are described in Uniprot with the Hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer keyword ?
13. How many drug compounds can we find associated to the PTEN protein ?
14. Save a figure of the network in file
15. Save a table of the protein interactions in a table
### Check the analysis tab
7.How many nodes does the network have ?
How many interactions does the network have ?
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