Global sequence properties for superfamily prediction: a machine learning approach

Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics
Richard J B DobsonMansoor A S Saqi

Abstract

Functional annotation of a protein sequence in the absence of experimental data or clear similarity to a sequence of known function is difficult. In this study, a simple set of sequence attributes based on physicochemical and predicted structural characteristics were used as input to machine learning methods. In order to improve performance through increasing the data available for training, a technique of sequence enrichment was explored. These methods were used to predict membership to 24 and 49 large and diverse protein superfamiles from the SCOP database. We found the best performance was obtained using an enriched training dataset. Accuracies of 66.3% and 55.6% were achieved on datasets comprising 24 and 49 superfamilies with LibSVM and AdaBoostM1 respectively. The methods used here confirm that domains within superfamilies share global sequence properties. We show machine learning models used to predict categories within the SCOP database can be significantly improved via a simple sequence enrichment step. These approaches can be used to complement profile methods for detecting distant relationships where function is difficult to infer.

Citations

Sep 11, 2012·Bioinformatics·Mario Abdel MessihXin Gao

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