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Abstract

Kai Xu, Andrew Cunningham, Seok-Hee Hong, Bruce H. Thomas This visualization shows the interactions among the proteins in yeast. Two proteins are connected if there is an interaction between them. The surface represents the number of interactions a protein has: the larger the surface height above a protein, the more interactions it has. It has been found that proteins with large number of interactions are important; the removal of such protein usually leads to cell death. page 33.