Proposing a highly accurate protein structural class predictor using segmentation-based features

BMC Genomics

Proceedings

Abdollah Dehzangi¹  Abdul Sattar¹  Alok Sharma²  Kuldip Paliwal³  James Lyons³ 

[1]Institute for Integrated and Intelligent Systems (IIIS), Griffith University, Kessels Road, Brisbane, Australia

[2]National ICT Australia (NICTA), Kessels Road, Brisbane, Australia

[3]Institute for Integrated and Intelligent Systems (IIIS), Griffith University, Kessels Road, Brisbane, Australia

[4]School of Engineering, The University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji, Fiji

[5]School of Engineering, Griffith University, Kessels Road, Brisbane, Australia

关键词: Protein structural class prediction problem;    Structural features;    Evolutionary features;    Segmented auto covariance;    Segmented distribution;    Support Vector Machine (SVM);   

DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2164-15-S1-S2

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundPrediction of the structural classes of proteins can provide important information about their functionalities as well as their major tertiary structures. It is also considered as an important step towards protein structure prediction problem. Despite all the efforts have been made so far, finding a fast and accurate computational approach to solve protein structural class prediction problem still remains a challenging problem in bioinformatics and computational biology.ResultsIn this study we propose segmented distribution and segmented auto covariance feature extraction methods to capture local and global discriminatory information from evolutionary profiles and predicted secondary structure of the proteins. By applying SVM to our extracted features, for the first time we enhance the protein structural class prediction accuracy to over 90% and 85% for two popular low-homology benchmarks that have been widely used in the literature. We report 92.2% and 86.3% prediction accuracies for 25PDB and 1189 benchmarks which are respectively up to 7.9% and 2.8% better than previously reported results for these two benchmarks.ConclusionBy proposing segmented distribution and segmented auto covariance feature extraction methods to capture local and global discriminatory information from evolutionary profiles and predicted secondary structure of the proteins, we are able to enhance the protein structural class prediction performance significantly.

【 授权许可】

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© Dehzangi et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2014