Exploring potential discriminatory information embedded in PSSM to enhance protein structural class prediction accuracy

Abdollah Dehzangi, Kuldip Paliwal, James Lyons, Alok Sharma, Abdul Sattar

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Abstract

Determining the structural class of a given protein can provide important information about its functionality and its general tertiary structure. In the last two decades, the protein structural class prediction problem has attracted tremendous attention and its prediction accuracy has been significantly improved. Features extracted from the Position Specific Scoring Matrix (PSSM) have played an important role to achieve this enhancement. However, this information has not been adequately explored since the protein structural class prediction accuracy relying on PSSM for feature extraction still remains limited. In this study, to explore this potential, we propose segmentation-based feature extraction technique based on the concepts of amino acids' distribution and auto covariance. By applying a Support Vector Machine (SVM) to our extracted features, we enhance protein structural class prediction accuracy up to 16% over similar studies found in the literature. We achieve over 90% and 80% prediction accuracies for 25PDB and 1189 benchmarks respectively by solely relying on the PSSM for feature extraction.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationPattern Recognition in Bioinformatics - 8th IAPR International Conference, PRIB 2013, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages208-219
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9783642391583
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
Externally publishedYes
Event8th IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics, PRIB 2013 - Nice, France
Duration: Jun 17 2013Jun 20 2013

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume7986 LNBI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference8th IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics, PRIB 2013
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityNice
Period6/17/136/20/13

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

Keywords

  • Feature Extraction
  • Protein Structural Class Prediction Problem
  • Segmented Auto Covariance
  • Segmented distribution
  • Support Vector Machine (SVM)

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