Title: Protein function prediction from protein-protein interactions

Prediction of protein function using protein-protein interaction data. (Minghua Deng, Kui Zhang, Shipra Mehta, Ting Chen, Fengzhu Sun) IEEE Computer Society in Bioinformatics, 2002. (http://www-hto.usc.edu/~tingchen/Papers/Proteinfun_Proceeding.pdf)

Two questions: (pick one and answer it in a one-page essay that you will
hand in next monday after the lecture, at noon in class):

Please be sure to include your 2-digit class ID # on your essay.

1, what is a protein network?

2, what is Markov random field?