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Shao J, Zhang Q, Yan K, Liu B. PreHom-PCLM: protein remote homology detection by combing motifs and protein cubic language model. Brief Bioinform 2023; 24:bbad347. [PMID: 37833837 DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbad347] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2023] [Revised: 08/14/2023] [Accepted: 09/14/2023] [Indexed: 10/15/2023] Open
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Protein remote homology detection is essential for structure prediction, function prediction, disease mechanism understanding, etc. The remote homology relationship depends on multiple protein properties, such as structural information and local sequence patterns. Previous studies have shown the challenges for predicting remote homology relationship by protein features at sequence level (e.g. position-specific score matrix). Protein motifs have been used in structure and function analysis due to their unique sequence patterns and implied structural information. Therefore, designing a usable architecture to fuse multiple protein properties based on motifs is urgently needed to improve protein remote homology detection performance. To make full use of the characteristics of motifs, we employed the language model called the protein cubic language model (PCLM). It combines multiple properties by constructing a motif-based neural network. Based on the PCLM, we proposed a predictor called PreHom-PCLM by extracting and fusing multiple motif features for protein remote homology detection. PreHom-PCLM outperforms the other state-of-the-art methods on the test set and independent test set. Experimental results further prove the effectiveness of multiple features fused by PreHom-PCLM for remote homology detection. Furthermore, the protein features derived from the PreHom-PCLM show strong discriminative power for proteins from different structural classes in the high-dimensional space. Availability and Implementation: http://bliulab.net/PreHom-PCLM.
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- Jiangyi Shao
- School of Computer Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
- Advanced Research Institute of Multidisciplinary Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
- Advanced Research Institute of Multidisciplinary Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
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Li H, Liu B. BioSeq-Diabolo: Biological sequence similarity analysis using Diabolo. PLoS Comput Biol 2023; 19:e1011214. [PMID: 37339155 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011214] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2022] [Accepted: 05/24/2023] [Indexed: 06/22/2023] Open
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As the key for biological sequence structure and function prediction, disease diagnosis and treatment, biological sequence similarity analysis has attracted more and more attentions. However, the exiting computational methods failed to accurately analyse the biological sequence similarities because of the various data types (DNA, RNA, protein, disease, etc) and their low sequence similarities (remote homology). Therefore, new concepts and techniques are desired to solve this challenging problem. Biological sequences (DNA, RNA and protein sequences) can be considered as the sentences of "the book of life", and their similarities can be considered as the biological language semantics (BLS). In this study, we are seeking the semantics analysis techniques derived from the natural language processing (NLP) to comprehensively and accurately analyse the biological sequence similarities. 27 semantics analysis methods derived from NLP were introduced to analyse biological sequence similarities, bringing new concepts and techniques to biological sequence similarity analysis. Experimental results show that these semantics analysis methods are able to facilitate the development of protein remote homology detection, circRNA-disease associations identification and protein function annotation, achieving better performance than the other state-of-the-art predictors in the related fields. Based on these semantics analysis methods, a platform called BioSeq-Diabolo has been constructed, which is named after a popular traditional sport in China. The users only need to input the embeddings of the biological sequence data. BioSeq-Diabolo will intelligently identify the task, and then accurately analyse the biological sequence similarities based on biological language semantics. BioSeq-Diabolo will integrate different biological sequence similarities in a supervised manner by using Learning to Rank (LTR), and the performance of the constructed methods will be evaluated and analysed so as to recommend the best methods for the users. The web server and stand-alone package of BioSeq-Diabolo can be accessed at http://bliulab.net/BioSeq-Diabolo/server/.
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- Hongliang Li
- School of Computer Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China
- Advanced Research Institute of Multidisciplinary Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China
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Kumar R, Yadav G, Kuddus M, Ashraf GM, Singh R. Unlocking the microbial studies through computational approaches: how far have we reached? ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2023; 30:48929-48947. [PMID: 36920617 PMCID: PMC10016191 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-023-26220-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2022] [Accepted: 02/24/2023] [Indexed: 04/16/2023]
Abstract
The metagenomics approach accelerated the study of genetic information from uncultured microbes and complex microbial communities. In silico research also facilitated an understanding of protein-DNA interactions, protein-protein interactions, docking between proteins and phyto/biochemicals for drug design, and modeling of the 3D structure of proteins. These in silico approaches provided insight into analyzing pathogenic and nonpathogenic strains that helped in the identification of probable genes for vaccines and antimicrobial agents and comparing whole-genome sequences to microbial evolution. Artificial intelligence, more precisely machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL), has proven to be a promising approach in the field of microbiology to handle, analyze, and utilize large data that are generated through nucleic acid sequencing and proteomics. This enabled the understanding of the functional and taxonomic diversity of microorganisms. ML and DL have been used in the prediction and forecasting of diseases and applied to trace environmental contaminants and environmental quality. This review presents an in-depth analysis of the recent application of silico approaches in microbial genomics, proteomics, functional diversity, vaccine development, and drug design.
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- Rajnish Kumar
- Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University Uttar Pradesh Lucknow Campus, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
- Department of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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- Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University Uttar Pradesh Lucknow Campus, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
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- Department of Biochemistry, College of Medicine, University of Hail, Hail, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, College of Health Sciences, and Sharjah Institute for Medical Research, University of Sharjah, Sharjah , 27272, United Arab Emirates
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- Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University Uttar Pradesh Lucknow Campus, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
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Ru X, Ye X, Sakurai T, Zou Q. NerLTR-DTA: drug-target binding affinity prediction based on neighbor relationship and learning to rank. Bioinformatics 2022; 38:1964-1971. [PMID: 35134828 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btac048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2021] [Revised: 12/20/2021] [Accepted: 01/28/2022] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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MOTIVATION Drug-target interaction prediction plays an important role in new drug discovery and drug repurposing. Binding affinity indicates the strength of drug-target interactions. Predicting drug-target binding affinity is expected to provide promising candidates for biologists, which can effectively reduce the workload of wet laboratory experiments and speed up the entire process of drug research. Given that, numerous new proteins are sequenced and compounds are synthesized, several improved computational methods have been proposed for such predictions, but there are still some challenges. (i) Many methods only discuss and implement one application scenario, they focus on drug repurposing and ignore the discovery of new drugs and targets. (ii) Many methods do not consider the priority order of proteins (or drugs) related to each target drug (or protein). Therefore, it is necessary to develop a comprehensive method that can be used in multiple scenarios and focuses on candidate order. RESULTS In this study, we propose a method called NerLTR-DTA that uses the neighbor relationship of similarity and sharing to extract features, and applies a ranking framework with regression attributes to predict affinity values and priority order of query drug (or query target) and its related proteins (or compounds). It is worth noting that using the characteristics of learning to rank to set different queries can smartly realize the multi-scenario application of the method, including the discovery of new drugs and new targets. Experimental results on two commonly used datasets show that NerLTR-DTA outperforms some state-of-the-art competing methods. NerLTR-DTA achieves excellent performance in all application scenarios mentioned in this study, and the rm(test)2 values guarantee such excellent performance is not obtained by chance. Moreover, it can be concluded that NerLTR-DTA can provide accurate ranking lists for the relevant results of most queries through the statistics of the association relationship of each query drug (or query protein). In general, NerLTR-DTA is a powerful tool for predicting drug-target associations and can contribute to new drug discovery and drug repurposing. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION The proposed method is implemented in Python and Java. Source codes and datasets are available at https://github.com/RUXIAOQING964914140/NerLTR-DTA.
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- Xiaoqing Ru
- Department of Computer Science, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 3058577, Japan.,Yangtze Delta Region Institute (Quzhou), University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Quzhou, Zhejiang 324000, China
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- Department of Computer Science, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 3058577, Japan
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- Department of Computer Science, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 3058577, Japan
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- Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, China.,Yangtze Delta Region Institute (Quzhou), University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Quzhou, Zhejiang 324000, China
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Tang YJ, Pang YH, Liu B. DeepIDP-2L: protein intrinsically disordered region prediction by combining convolutional attention network and hierarchical attention network. Bioinformatics 2022; 38:1252-1260. [PMID: 34864847 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btab810] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2021] [Revised: 11/02/2021] [Accepted: 11/26/2021] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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MOTIVATION Intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) are widely distributed in proteins. Accurate prediction of IDRs is critical for the protein structure and function analysis. The IDRs are divided into long disordered regions (LDRs) and short disordered regions (SDRs) according to their lengths. Previous studies have shown that LDRs and SDRs have different proprieties. However, the existing computational methods fail to extract different features for LDRs and SDRs separately. As a result, they achieve unstable performance on datasets with different ratios of LDRs and SDRs. RESULTS In this study, a two-layer predictor was proposed called DeepIDP-2L. In the first layer, two kinds of attention-based models are used to extract different features for LDRs and SDRs, respectively. The hierarchical attention network is used to capture the distribution pattern features of LDRs, and convolutional attention network is used to capture the local correlation features of SDRs. The second layer of DeepIDP-2L maps the feature extracted in the first layer into a new feature space. Convolutional network and bidirectional long short term memory are used to capture the local and long-range information for predicting both SDRs and LDRs. Experimental results show that DeepIDP-2L can achieve more stable performance than other exiting predictors on independent test sets with different ratios of SDRs and LDRs. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION For the convenience of most experimental scientists, a user-friendly and publicly accessible web-server for the new predictor has been established at http://bliulab.net/DeepIDP-2L/. It is anticipated that DeepIDP-2L will become a very useful tool for identification of intrinsically disordered regions. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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- Yi-Jun Tang
- School of Computer Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China.,Advanced Research Institute of Multidisciplinary Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
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Li F, Dong S, Leier A, Han M, Guo X, Xu J, Wang X, Pan S, Jia C, Zhang Y, Webb GI, Coin LJM, Li C, Song J. Positive-unlabeled learning in bioinformatics and computational biology: a brief review. Brief Bioinform 2021; 23:6415313. [PMID: 34729589 DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbab461] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2021] [Revised: 09/27/2021] [Accepted: 10/07/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Conventional supervised binary classification algorithms have been widely applied to address significant research questions using biological and biomedical data. This classification scheme requires two fully labeled classes of data (e.g. positive and negative samples) to train a classification model. However, in many bioinformatics applications, labeling data is laborious, and the negative samples might be potentially mislabeled due to the limited sensitivity of the experimental equipment. The positive unlabeled (PU) learning scheme was therefore proposed to enable the classifier to learn directly from limited positive samples and a large number of unlabeled samples (i.e. a mixture of positive or negative samples). To date, several PU learning algorithms have been developed to address various biological questions, such as sequence identification, functional site characterization and interaction prediction. In this paper, we revisit a collection of 29 state-of-the-art PU learning bioinformatic applications to address various biological questions. Various important aspects are extensively discussed, including PU learning methodology, biological application, classifier design and evaluation strategy. We also comment on the existing issues of PU learning and offer our perspectives for the future development of PU learning applications. We anticipate that our work serves as an instrumental guideline for a better understanding of the PU learning framework in bioinformatics and further developing next-generation PU learning frameworks for critical biological applications.
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- Fuyi Li
- Monash University, Australia
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- Department of Genetics, UAB School of Medicine, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Australia
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- Computer Science and Technology from Nankai University, China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University, Australia
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- University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Ultimo, NSW, Australia
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- College of Science, Dalian Maritime University, Australia
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- Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
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- Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University, Australia
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- Department of Clinical Pathology, University of Melbourne, Australia
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- Biomedicine Discovery Institute and Department of Biochemistry of Molecular Biology, Monash University, Australia
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- Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
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Jin X, Liao Q, Liu B. S2L-PSIBLAST: a supervised two-layer search framework based on PSI-BLAST for protein remote homology detection. Bioinformatics 2021; 37:4321-4327. [PMID: 34170287 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btab472] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2020] [Revised: 05/29/2021] [Accepted: 06/24/2021] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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MOTIVATION Protein remote homology detection is a challenging task for the studies of protein evolutionary relationships. PSI-BLAST is an important and fundamental search method for detecting homology proteins. Although many improved versions of PSI-BLAST have been proposed, their performance is limited by the search processes of PSI-BLAST. RESULTS For further improving the performance of PSI-BLAST for protein remote homology detection, a supervised two-layer search framework based on PSI-BLAST (S2L-PSIBLAST) is proposed. S2L-PSIBLAST consists of a two-level search: the first-level search provides high-quality search results by using SMI-BLAST framework and double-link strategy to filter the non-homology protein sequences, the second-level search detects more homology proteins by profile-link similarity, and more accurate ranking lists for those detected protein sequences are obtained by learning to rank strategy. Experimental results on the updated version of Structural Classification of Proteins-extended benchmark dataset show that S2L-PSIBLAST not only obviously improves the performance of PSI-BLAST, but also achieves better performance on two improved versions of PSI-BLAST: DELTA-BLAST and PSI-BLASTexB. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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- Xiaopeng Jin
- School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055, China
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055, China
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055, China.,School of Computer Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China.,Advanced Research Institute of Multidisciplinary Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China
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Jin X, Liao Q, Wei H, Zhang J, Liu B. SMI-BLAST: a novel supervised search framework based on PSI-BLAST for protein remote homology detection. Bioinformatics 2021; 37:913-920. [PMID: 32898222 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa772] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2020] [Revised: 08/14/2020] [Accepted: 08/28/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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MOTIVATION As one of the most important and widely used mainstream iterative search tool for protein sequence search, an accurate Position-Specific Scoring Matrix (PSSM) is the key of PSI-BLAST. However, PSSMs containing non-homologous information obviously reduce the performance of PSI-BLAST for protein remote homology. RESULTS To further study this problem, we summarize three types of Incorrectly Selected Homology (ISH) errors in PSSMs. A new search tool Supervised-Manner-based Iterative BLAST (SMI-BLAST) is proposed based on PSI-BLAST for solving these errors. SMI-BLAST obviously outperforms PSI-BLAST on the Structural Classification of Proteins-extended (SCOPe) dataset. Compared with PSI-BLAST on the ISH error subsets of SCOPe dataset, SMI-BLAST detects 1.6-2.87 folds more remote homologous sequences, and outperforms PSI-BLAST by 35.66% in terms of ROC1 scores. Furthermore, this framework is applied to JackHMMER, DELTA-BLAST and PSI-BLASTexB, and their performance is further improved. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION User-friendly webservers for SMI-BLAST, JackHMMER, DELTA-BLAST and PSI-BLASTexB are established at http://bliulab.net/SMI-BLAST/, by which the users can easily get the results without the need to go through the mathematical details. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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- Xiaopeng Jin
- School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055, China
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055, China
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055, China
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055, China
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055, China.,School of Computer Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China.,Advanced Research Institute of Multidisciplinary Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
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Wei H, Xu Y, Liu B. iCircDA-LTR: identification of circRNA-disease associations based on Learning to Rank. Bioinformatics 2021; 37:3302-3310. [PMID: 33963827 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btab334] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2021] [Revised: 03/23/2021] [Accepted: 05/04/2021] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
Abstract
MOTIVATION Due to the inherent stability and close relationship with the progression of diseases, circRNAs are serving as important biomarkers and drug targets. Efficient predictors for identifying circRNA-disease associations are highly required. The existing predictors consider circRNA-disease association prediction as a classification task or a recommendation problem, failing to capture the ranking information among the associations and detect the diseases associated with new circRNAs. However, more and more circRNAs are discovered. Identification of the diseases associated with these new circRNAs remains a challenging task. RESULTS In this study, we proposed a new predictor called iCricDA-LTR for circRNA-disease association prediction. Different from any existing predictor, iCricDA-LTR employed a ranking framework to model the global ranking associations among the query circRNAs and the diseases. The Learning to Rank (LTR) algorithm was employed to rank the associations based on various predictors and features in a supervised manner. The experimental results on two independent test datasets showed that iCircDA-LTR outperformed the other competing methods, especially for predicting the diseases associated with new circRNAs. As a result, iCircDA-LTR is more suitable for the real world applications. AVAILABILITY For the convenience of researchers to detect new circRNA-disease associations. The web server of iCircDA-LTR was established and freely available at http://bliulab.net/iCircDA-LTR/.
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- Hang Wei
- School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055, China
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055, China
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055, China.,School of Computer Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China.,Advanced Research Institute of Multidisciplinary Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China
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Azim SM, Haque MR, Shatabda S. OriC-ENS: A sequence-based ensemble classifier for predicting origin of replication in S. cerevisiae. Comput Biol Chem 2021; 92:107502. [PMID: 33962169 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiolchem.2021.107502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2021] [Accepted: 04/21/2021] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
Abstract
DNA Replication plays the most crucial part in biological inheritance, ensuring an even flow of genetic information from parent to offspring. The beginning site of DNA Replication which is called the Origin of Replication (ORI), plays a significant role in understanding the molecular mechanisms and genomic analysis of DNA. Hence, it is paramount to accurately identify the origin of replication to gain a more accurate understanding of the biochemical and genomic properties of DNA. In this paper, We have proposed a new approach named OriC-ENS that uses sequence-based feature extraction techniques, K-mer, K-gapped Mono-Di, and Di Mono, and an ensemble classification technique that uses majority voting for the identification of Origin of Replication. We have used three SVM classifiers, one for the K-mer features and two more for K-Gapped Mono-Di and K-Gapped Di-mono features. Finally, we used majority voting to combine the prediction by each predictor. Experimental results on the S. Cerevisiae dataset have shown that our method achieves an accuracy of 91.62 % which outperforms other state-of-the-art methods by a significant margin. We have also tested our method using other evaluation metrics such as Matthews Correlation Coefficient (MCC), Area Under Curve(AUC), Sensitivity, and Specificity, where it has achieved a score of 0.83, 0.98, 0.90, and 0.92 respectively. We have further evaluated our model on an independent test set collected from OriDB, consisting of the sequences of Schizosaccharomyces pombe where we have seen that our model can predict the origin of replication efficiently and with great precision. We have made our python-based source code available at https://github.com/MehediAzim/OriC-ENS.
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- Sayed Mehedi Azim
- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, United International University, Plot-2, United City, Madani Avenue, Badda, Dhaka, 1212, Bangladesh
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, United International University, Plot-2, United City, Madani Avenue, Badda, Dhaka, 1212, Bangladesh
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, United International University, Plot-2, United City, Madani Avenue, Badda, Dhaka, 1212, Bangladesh.
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Tang YJ, Pang YH, Liu B. IDP-Seq2Seq: identification of intrinsically disordered regions based on sequence to sequence learning. Bioinformatics 2021; 36:5177-5186. [PMID: 32702119 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa667] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 27.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2020] [Revised: 06/21/2020] [Accepted: 07/17/2020] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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MOTIVATION Related to many important biological functions, intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) are widely distributed in proteins. Accurate prediction of IDRs is critical for the protein structure and function analysis. However, the existing computational methods construct the predictive models solely in the sequence space, failing to convert the sequence space into the 'semantic space' to reflect the structure characteristics of proteins. Furthermore, although the length-dependent predictors showed promising results, new fusion strategies should be explored to improve their predictive performance and the generalization. RESULTS In this study, we applied the Sequence to Sequence Learning (Seq2Seq) derived from natural language processing (NLP) to map protein sequences to 'semantic space' to reflect the structure patterns with the help of predicted residue-residue contacts (CCMs) and other sequence-based features. Furthermore, the Attention mechanism was used to capture the global associations between all residue pairs in the proteins. Three length-dependent predictors were constructed: IDP-Seq2Seq-L for long disordered region prediction, IDP-Seq2Seq-S for short disordered region prediction and IDP-Seq2Seq-G for both long and short disordered region predictions. Finally, these three predictors were fused into one predictor called IDP-Seq2Seq to improve the discriminative power and generalization. Experimental results on four independent test datasets and the CASP test dataset showed that IDP-Seq2Seq is insensitive with the ratios of long and short disordered regions and outperforms other competing methods. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION For the convenience of most experimental scientists, a user-friendly and publicly accessible web-server for the powerful new predictor has been established at http://bliulab.net/IDP-Seq2Seq/. It is anticipated that IDP-Seq2Seq will become a very useful tool for identification of IDRs. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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- Yi-Jun Tang
- School of Computer Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China.,Advanced Research Institute of Multidisciplinary Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
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Ru X, Ye X, Sakurai T, Zou Q. Application of learning to rank in bioinformatics tasks. Brief Bioinform 2021; 22:6102666. [PMID: 33454758 DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbaa394] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2020] [Revised: 11/09/2020] [Accepted: 11/24/2020] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Over the past decades, learning to rank (LTR) algorithms have been gradually applied to bioinformatics. Such methods have shown significant advantages in multiple research tasks in this field. Therefore, it is necessary to summarize and discuss the application of these algorithms so that these algorithms are convenient and contribute to bioinformatics. In this paper, the characteristics of LTR algorithms and their strengths over other types of algorithms are analyzed based on the application of multiple perspectives in bioinformatics. Finally, the paper further discusses the shortcomings of the LTR algorithms, the methods and means to better use the algorithms and some open problems that currently exist.
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- Department of Computer Science and Center for Artificial Intelligence Research (C-AIR), University of Tsukuba
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- University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
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Xu L, Liang G, Chen B, Tan X, Xiang H, Liao C. A Computational Method for the Identification of Endolysins and Autolysins. Protein Pept Lett 2020; 27:329-336. [PMID: 31577192 DOI: 10.2174/0929866526666191002104735] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2019] [Revised: 06/27/2019] [Accepted: 09/03/2019] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Cell lytic enzyme is a kind of highly evolved protein, which can destroy the cell structure and kill the bacteria. Compared with antibiotics, cell lytic enzyme will not cause serious problem of drug resistance of pathogenic bacteria. Thus, the study of cell wall lytic enzymes aims at finding an efficient way for curing bacteria infectious. Compared with using antibiotics, the problem of drug resistance becomes more serious. Therefore, it is a good choice for curing bacterial infections by using cell lytic enzymes. Cell lytic enzyme includes endolysin and autolysin and the difference between them is the purpose of the break of cell wall. The identification of the type of cell lytic enzymes is meaningful for the study of cell wall enzymes. OBJECTIVE In this article, our motivation is to predict the type of cell lytic enzyme. Cell lytic enzyme is helpful for killing bacteria, so it is meaningful for study the type of cell lytic enzyme. However, it is time consuming to detect the type of cell lytic enzyme by experimental methods. Thus, an efficient computational method for the type of cell lytic enzyme prediction is proposed in our work. METHODS We propose a computational method for the prediction of endolysin and autolysin. First, a data set containing 27 endolysins and 41 autolysins is built. Then the protein is represented by tripeptides composition. The features are selected with larger confidence degree. At last, the classifier is trained by the labeled vectors based on support vector machine. The learned classifier is used to predict the type of cell lytic enzyme. RESULTS Following the proposed method, the experimental results show that the overall accuracy can attain 97.06%, when 44 features are selected. Compared with Ding's method, our method improves the overall accuracy by nearly 4.5% ((97.06-92.9)/92.9%). The performance of our proposed method is stable, when the selected feature number is from 40 to 70. The overall accuracy of tripeptides optimal feature set is 94.12%, and the overall accuracy of Chou's amphiphilic PseAAC method is 76.2%. The experimental results also demonstrate that the overall accuracy is improved by nearly 18% when using the tripeptides optimal feature set. CONCLUSION The paper proposed an efficient method for identifying endolysin and autolysin. In this paper, support vector machine is used to predict the type of cell lytic enzyme. The experimental results show that the overall accuracy of the proposed method is 94.12%, which is better than some existing methods. In conclusion, the selected 44 features can improve the overall accuracy for identification of the type of cell lytic enzyme. Support vector machine performs better than other classifiers when using the selected feature set on the benchmark data set.
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- Lei Xu
- School of Electronic and Communication Engineering, Shenzhen Polytechnic, Shenzhen, China
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- School of Electronic and Communication Engineering, Shenzhen Polytechnic, Shenzhen, China
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- School of Software, Shenzhen Institute of Information Technology, Shenzhen, China
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- School of Software, Shenzhen Institute of Information Technology, Shenzhen, China
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- School of Automotive and Transportation Engineering, Shenzhen Polytechnic, Shenzhen, China
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- Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Devices and Systems of Ministry of Education and Guangdong Province, College of Optoelectronic Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China
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Liu B, Gao X, Zhang H. BioSeq-Analysis2.0: an updated platform for analyzing DNA, RNA and protein sequences at sequence level and residue level based on machine learning approaches. Nucleic Acids Res 2020; 47:e127. [PMID: 31504851 PMCID: PMC6847461 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkz740] [Citation(s) in RCA: 222] [Impact Index Per Article: 55.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2019] [Revised: 08/07/2019] [Accepted: 08/17/2019] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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As the first web server to analyze various biological sequences at sequence level based on machine learning approaches, many powerful predictors in the field of computational biology have been developed with the assistance of the BioSeq-Analysis. However, the BioSeq-Analysis can be only applied to the sequence-level analysis tasks, preventing its applications to the residue-level analysis tasks, and an intelligent tool that is able to automatically generate various predictors for biological sequence analysis at both residue level and sequence level is highly desired. In this regard, we decided to publish an important updated server covering a total of 26 features at the residue level and 90 features at the sequence level called BioSeq-Analysis2.0 (http://bliulab.net/BioSeq-Analysis2.0/), by which the users only need to upload the benchmark dataset, and the BioSeq-Analysis2.0 can generate the predictors for both residue-level analysis and sequence-level analysis tasks. Furthermore, the corresponding stand-alone tool was also provided, which can be downloaded from http://bliulab.net/BioSeq-Analysis2.0/download/. To the best of our knowledge, the BioSeq-Analysis2.0 is the first tool for generating predictors for biological sequence analysis tasks at residue level. Specifically, the experimental results indicated that the predictors developed by BioSeq-Analysis2.0 can achieve comparable or even better performance than the existing state-of-the-art predictors.
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- Bin Liu
- School of Computer Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China.,Advanced Research Institute of Multidisciplinary Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
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Liu B. BioSeq-Analysis: a platform for DNA, RNA and protein sequence analysis based on machine learning approaches. Brief Bioinform 2020; 20:1280-1294. [PMID: 29272359 DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbx165] [Citation(s) in RCA: 188] [Impact Index Per Article: 47.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2017] [Revised: 11/08/2017] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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With the avalanche of biological sequences generated in the post-genomic age, one of the most challenging problems is how to computationally analyze their structures and functions. Machine learning techniques are playing key roles in this field. Typically, predictors based on machine learning techniques contain three main steps: feature extraction, predictor construction and performance evaluation. Although several Web servers and stand-alone tools have been developed to facilitate the biological sequence analysis, they only focus on individual step. In this regard, in this study a powerful Web server called BioSeq-Analysis (http://bioinformatics.hitsz.edu.cn/BioSeq-Analysis/) has been proposed to automatically complete the three main steps for constructing a predictor. The user only needs to upload the benchmark data set. BioSeq-Analysis can generate the optimized predictor based on the benchmark data set, and the performance measures can be reported as well. Furthermore, to maximize user's convenience, its stand-alone program was also released, which can be downloaded from http://bioinformatics.hitsz.edu.cn/BioSeq-Analysis/download/, and can be directly run on Windows, Linux and UNIX. Applied to three sequence analysis tasks, experimental results showed that the predictors generated by BioSeq-Analysis even outperformed some state-of-the-art methods. It is anticipated that BioSeq-Analysis will become a useful tool for biological sequence analysis.
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Identification of prokaryotic promoters and their strength by integrating heterogeneous features. Genomics 2020; 112:1396-1403. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2019.08.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2019] [Revised: 07/31/2019] [Accepted: 08/14/2019] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Ru X, Wang L, Li L, Ding H, Ye X, Zou Q. Exploration of the correlation between GPCRs and drugs based on a learning to rank algorithm. Comput Biol Med 2020; 119:103660. [PMID: 32090901 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2020.103660] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2019] [Revised: 02/04/2020] [Accepted: 02/12/2020] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Exploring the protein - drug correlation can not only solve the problem of selecting candidate compounds but also solve related problems such as drug redirection and finding potential drug targets. Therefore, many researchers have proposed different machine learning methods for prediction of protein-drug correlations. However, many existing models simply divide the protein-drug relationship into related or irrelevant categories and do not deeply explore the most relevant target (or drug) for a given drug (or target). In order to solve this problem, this paper applies the ranking concept to the prediction of the GPCR (G Protein-Coupled Receptors)-drug correlation. This study uses two different types of data sets to explore candidate compound and potential target problems, and both sets achieved good results. In addition, this study also found that the family to which a protein belongs is not an inherent factor that affects the ranking of GPCR-drug correlations; however, if the drug affects other family members of the protein, then the protein is likely to be a potential target of the drug. This study showed that the learning to rank algorithm is a good tool for exploring protein-drug correlations.
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- Xiaoqing Ru
- Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China; School of Information and Electrical Engineering, Hebei University of Engineering, Handan, China
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- Scientific Research Department, Heilongjiang Agricultural Recalmation General Hospital, Harbin, China.
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- School of Information and Electrical Engineering, Hebei University of Engineering, Handan, China
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- Center for Informational Biology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Computer Science, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba Science City, Japan
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- Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China; Center for Informational Biology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China.
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Ilyas M, Irfan M, Mahmood T, Hussain H, Latif-ur-Rehman, Naeem I, Khaliq-ur-Rahman. Analysis of Germin-like Protein Genes (OsGLPs) Family in Rice Using Various In silico Approaches. Curr Bioinform 2020. [DOI: 10.2174/1574893614666190722165130] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
Abstract
Background:
Germin-like Proteins (GLPs) play an important role in various stresses.
Rice contains 43 GLPs, among which many remain functionally unexplored. The computational
analysis will provide significant insight into their function.
Objective:
To find various structural properties, functional importance, phylogeny and expression
pattern of all OsGLPs using various bioinformatics tools.
Methods:
Physiochemical properties, sub-cellular localization, domain composition, Nglycosylation
and Phosphorylation sites, and 3D structural models of the OsGLPs were predicted
using various bioinformatics tools. Functional analysis was carried out with the Search Tool for
the Retrieval of Interacting Genes/Proteins (STRING) and Blast2GO servers. The expression
profile of the OsGLPs was predicted by retrieving the data for expression values from tissuespecific
and hormonal stressed array libraries of RiceXPro. Their phylogenetic relationship was
computed using Molecular and Evolutionary Genetic Analysis (MEGA6) tool.
Results:
Most of the OsGLPs are stable in the cellular environment with a prominent expression in
the extracellular region (57%) and plasma membrane (33%). Besides, 3 basic cupin domains, 7
more were reported, among which NTTNKVGSNVTLINV, FLLAALLALASWQAI, and
MASSSF were common to 99% of the sequences, related to bacterial pathogenicity, peroxidase
activity, and peptide signal activity, respectively. Structurally, OsGLPs are similar but functionally
they are diverse with novel enzymatic activities of oxalate decarboxylase, lyase, peroxidase, and
oxidoreductase. Expression analysis revealed prominent activities in the root, endosperm, and
leaves. OsGLPs were strongly expressed by abscisic acid, auxin, gibberellin, cytokinin, and
brassinosteroid. Phylogenetically they showed polyphyletic origin with a narrow genetic
background of 0.05%. OsGLPs of chromosome 3, 8, and 12 are functionally more important due to
their defensive role against various stresses through co-expression strategy.
Conclusion:
The analysis will help to utilize OsGLPs in future food programs.
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- Muhammad Ilyas
- Department of Botany, University of Swabi, Swabi-23561, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
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- Department of Botany, University of Swabi, Swabi-23561, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
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- Department of Botany, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad 45320, Pakistan
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- Department of Biotechnology, University of Swabi, Swabi-23561, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
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- Department of Biotechnology, University of Swabi, Swabi-23561, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
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- Department of Biotechnology, University of Swabi, Swabi-23561, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Swabi, Swabi-23561, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
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Patil K, Chouhan U. Relevance of Machine Learning Techniques and Various Protein Features in Protein Fold Classification: A Review. Curr Bioinform 2019. [DOI: 10.2174/1574893614666190204154038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
Abstract
Background:
Protein fold prediction is a fundamental step in Structural Bioinformatics.
The tertiary structure of a protein determines its function and to predict its tertiary structure, fold
prediction serves an important role. Protein fold is simply the arrangement of the secondary
structure elements relative to each other in space. A number of studies have been carried out till
date by different research groups working worldwide in this field by using the combination of
different benchmark datasets, different types of descriptors, features and classification techniques.
Objective:
In this study, we have tried to put all these contributions together, analyze their study
and to compare different techniques used by them.
Methods:
Different features are derived from protein sequence, its secondary structure, different
physicochemical properties of amino acids, domain composition, Position Specific Scoring Matrix,
profile and threading techniques.
Conclusion:
Combination of these different features can improve classification accuracy to a
large extent. With the help of this survey, one can know the most suitable feature/attribute set and
classification technique for this multi-class protein fold classification problem.
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- Komal Patil
- Department of Mathematics, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (MANIT), Bhopal, 462003 M.P, India
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- Department of Mathematics, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (MANIT), Bhopal, 462003 M.P, India
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Liu B, Zhu Y, Yan K. Fold-LTR-TCP: protein fold recognition based on triadic closure principle. Brief Bioinform 2019; 21:2185-2193. [DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbz139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2019] [Revised: 10/01/2019] [Accepted: 10/09/2019] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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As an important task in protein structure and function studies, protein fold recognition has attracted more and more attention. The existing computational predictors in this field treat this task as a multi-classification problem, ignoring the relationship among proteins in the dataset. However, previous studies showed that their relationship is critical for protein homology analysis. In this study, the protein fold recognition is treated as an information retrieval task. The Learning to Rank model (LTR) was employed to retrieve the query protein against the template proteins to find the template proteins in the same fold with the query protein in a supervised manner. The triadic closure principle (TCP) was performed on the ranking list generated by the LTR to improve its accuracy by considering the relationship among the query protein and the template proteins in the ranking list. Finally, a predictor called Fold-LTR-TCP was proposed. The rigorous test on the LE benchmark dataset showed that the Fold-LTR-TCP predictor achieved an accuracy of 73.2%, outperforming all the other competing methods.
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- Bin Liu
- School of Computer Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
- Advanced Research Institute of Multidisciplinary Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055, China
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055, China
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Liu B, Li CC, Yan K. DeepSVM-fold: protein fold recognition by combining support vector machines and pairwise sequence similarity scores generated by deep learning networks. Brief Bioinform 2019; 21:1733-1741. [DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbz098] [Citation(s) in RCA: 106] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2019] [Revised: 06/27/2019] [Accepted: 07/06/2019] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Protein fold recognition is critical for studying the structures and functions of proteins. The existing protein fold recognition approaches failed to efficiently calculate the pairwise sequence similarity scores of the proteins in the same fold sharing low sequence similarities. Furthermore, the existing feature vectorization strategies are not able to measure the global relationships among proteins from different protein folds. In this article, we proposed a new computational predictor called DeepSVM-fold for protein fold recognition by introducing a new feature vector based on the pairwise sequence similarity scores calculated from the fold-specific features extracted by deep learning networks. The feature vectors are then fed into a support vector machine to construct the predictor. Experimental results on the benchmark dataset (LE) show that DeepSVM-fold obviously outperforms all the other competing methods.
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- Bin Liu
- School of Computer Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
- Advanced Research Institute of Multidisciplinary Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055, China
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055, China
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Wu Z, Liao Q, Liu B. A comprehensive review and evaluation of computational methods for identifying protein complexes from protein–protein interaction networks. Brief Bioinform 2019; 21:1531-1548. [DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbz085] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2019] [Revised: 06/17/2019] [Accepted: 06/17/2019] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Protein complexes are the fundamental units for many cellular processes. Identifying protein complexes accurately is critical for understanding the functions and organizations of cells. With the increment of genome-scale protein–protein interaction (PPI) data for different species, various computational methods focus on identifying protein complexes from PPI networks. In this article, we give a comprehensive and updated review on the state-of-the-art computational methods in the field of protein complex identification, especially focusing on the newly developed approaches. The computational methods are organized into three categories, including cluster-quality-based methods, node-affinity-based methods and ensemble clustering methods. Furthermore, the advantages and disadvantages of different methods are discussed, and then, the performance of 17 state-of-the-art methods is evaluated on two widely used benchmark data sets. Finally, the bottleneck problems and their potential solutions in this important field are discussed.
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- Zhourun Wu
- School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China
- Advanced Research Institute of Multidisciplinary Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China
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Liu B, Chen S, Yan K, Weng F. iRO-PsekGCC: Identify DNA Replication Origins Based on Pseudo k-Tuple GC Composition. Front Genet 2019; 10:842. [PMID: 31620165 PMCID: PMC6759546 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2019.00842] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2019] [Accepted: 08/13/2019] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Identification of replication origins is playing a key role in understanding the mechanism of DNA replication. This task is of great significance in DNA sequence analysis. Because of its importance, some computational approaches have been introduced. Among these predictors, the iRO-3wPseKNC predictor is the first discriminative method that is able to correctly identify the entire replication origins. For further improving its predictive performance, we proposed the Pseudo k-tuple GC Composition (PsekGCC) approach to capture the "GC asymmetry bias" of yeast species by considering both the GC skew and the sequence order effects of k-tuple GC Composition (k-GCC) in this study. Based on PseKGCC, we proposed a new predictor called iRO-PsekGCC to identify the DNA replication origins. Rigorous jackknife test on two yeast species benchmark datasets (Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Pichia pastoris) indicated that iRO-PsekGCC outperformed iRO-3wPseKNC. It can be anticipated that iRO-PsekGCC will be a useful tool for DNA replication origin identification. Availability and implementation: The web-server for the iRO-PsekGCC predictor was established, and it can be accessed at http://bliulab.net/iRO-PsekGCC/.
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- Bin Liu
- School of Computer Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China
- Advanced Research Institute of Multidisciplinary Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China
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- School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China
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Qu K, Guo F, Liu X, Lin Y, Zou Q. Application of Machine Learning in Microbiology. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:827. [PMID: 31057526 PMCID: PMC6482238 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.00827] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2019] [Accepted: 04/01/2019] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Microorganisms are ubiquitous and closely related to people's daily lives. Since they were first discovered in the 19th century, researchers have shown great interest in microorganisms. People studied microorganisms through cultivation, but this method is expensive and time consuming. However, the cultivation method cannot keep a pace with the development of high-throughput sequencing technology. To deal with this problem, machine learning (ML) methods have been widely applied to the field of microbiology. Literature reviews have shown that ML can be used in many aspects of microbiology research, especially classification problems, and for exploring the interaction between microorganisms and the surrounding environment. In this study, we summarize the application of ML in microbiology.
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- Kaiyang Qu
- College of Intelligence and Computing, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
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- College of Intelligence and Computing, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
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- School of Information Science and Technology, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
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- School of Information Science and Technology, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
- Department of System Integration, Sparebanken Vest, Bergen, Norway
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- Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
- Center for Informational Biology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
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Su R, Liu X, Wei L. MinE-RFE: determine the optimal subset from RFE by minimizing the subset-accuracy–defined energy. Brief Bioinform 2019; 21:687-698. [DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbz021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2018] [Revised: 01/24/2019] [Accepted: 02/02/2019] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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Recursive feature elimination (RFE), as one of the most popular feature selection algorithms, has been extensively applied to bioinformatics. During the training, a group of candidate subsets are generated by iteratively eliminating the least important features from the original features. However, how to determine the optimal subset from them still remains ambiguous. Among most current studies, either overall accuracy or subset size (SS) is used to select the most predictive features. Using which one or both and how they affect the prediction performance are still open questions. In this study, we proposed MinE-RFE, a novel RFE-based feature selection approach by sufficiently considering the effect of both factors. Subset decision problem was reflected into subset-accuracy space and became an energy-minimization problem. We also provided a mathematical description of the relationship between the overall accuracy and SS using Gaussian Mixture Models together with spline fitting. Besides, we comprehensively reviewed a variety of state-of-the-art applications in bioinformatics using RFE. We compared their approaches of deciding the final subset from all the candidate subsets with MinE-RFE on diverse bioinformatics data sets. Additionally, we also compared MinE-RFE with some well-used feature selection algorithms. The comparative results demonstrate that the proposed approach exhibits the best performance among all the approaches. To facilitate the use of MinE-RFE, we further established a user-friendly web server with the implementation of the proposed approach, which is accessible at http://qgking.wicp.net/MinE/. We expect this web server will be a useful tool for research community.
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- Ran Su
- School of Computer Software, College of Intelligence and Computing, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, College of Intelligence and Computing, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, College of Intelligence and Computing, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
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Background:DNA-binding proteins, binding to DNA, widely exist in living cells, participating in many cell activities. They can participate some DNA-related cell activities, for instance DNA replication, transcription, recombination, and DNA repair.Objective:Given the importance of DNA-binding proteins, studies for predicting the DNA-binding proteins have been a popular issue over the past decades. In this article, we review current machine-learning methods which research on the prediction of DNA-binding proteins through feature representation methods, classifiers, measurements, dataset and existing web server.Method:The prediction methods of DNA-binding protein can be divided into two types, based on amino acid composition and based on protein structure. In this article, we accord to the two types methods to introduce the application of machine learning in DNA-binding proteins prediction.Results:Machine learning plays an important role in the classification of DNA-binding proteins, and the result is better. The best ACC is above 80%.Conclusion:Machine learning can be widely used in many aspects of biological information, especially in protein classification. Some issues should be considered in future work. First, the relationship between the number of features and performance must be explored. Second, many features are used to predict DNA-binding proteins and propose solutions for high-dimensional spaces.
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- Kaiyang Qu
- College of Intelligence and Computing, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
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- College of Intelligence and Computing, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
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- College of Intelligence and Computing, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
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Yang W, Zhu XJ, Huang J, Ding H, Lin H. A Brief Survey of Machine Learning Methods in Protein Sub-Golgi Localization. Curr Bioinform 2019. [DOI: 10.2174/1574893613666181113131415] [Citation(s) in RCA: 111] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Background:The location of proteins in a cell can provide important clues to their functions in various biological processes. Thus, the application of machine learning method in the prediction of protein subcellular localization has become a hotspot in bioinformatics. As one of key organelles, the Golgi apparatus is in charge of protein storage, package, and distribution.Objective:The identification of protein location in Golgi apparatus will provide in-depth insights into their functions. Thus, the machine learning-based method of predicting protein location in Golgi apparatus has been extensively explored. The development of protein sub-Golgi apparatus localization prediction should be reviewed for providing a whole background for the fields.Method:The benchmark dataset, feature extraction, machine learning method and published results were summarized.Results:We briefly introduced the recent progresses in protein sub-Golgi apparatus localization prediction using machine learning methods and discussed their advantages and disadvantages.Conclusion:We pointed out the perspective of machine learning methods in protein sub-Golgi localization prediction.
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- Wuritu Yang
- Key Laboratory for Neuro-Information of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Center for Informational Biology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610054, China
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- Key Laboratory for Neuro-Information of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Center for Informational Biology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610054, China
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- Key Laboratory for Neuro-Information of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Center for Informational Biology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610054, China
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- Key Laboratory for Neuro-Information of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Center for Informational Biology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610054, China
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- Key Laboratory for Neuro-Information of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Center for Informational Biology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610054, China
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Li Y, Niu M, Zou Q. ELM-MHC: An Improved MHC Identification Method with Extreme Learning Machine Algorithm. J Proteome Res 2019; 18:1392-1401. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.9b00012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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- Yanjuan Li
- School of Information and Computer Engineering, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China
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- School of Information and Computer Engineering, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China
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- Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, China
- Center for Informational Biology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, China
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Yan K, Fang X, Xu Y, Liu B. Protein fold recognition based on multi-view modeling. Bioinformatics 2019; 35:2982-2990. [DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btz040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2018] [Revised: 12/29/2018] [Accepted: 01/16/2019] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Abstract
Motivation
Protein fold recognition has attracted increasing attention because it is critical for studies of the 3D structures of proteins and drug design. Researchers have been extensively studying this important task, and several features with high discriminative power have been proposed. However, the development of methods that efficiently combine these features to improve the predictive performance remains a challenging problem.
Results
In this study, we proposed two algorithms: MV-fold and MT-fold. MV-fold is a new computational predictor based on the multi-view learning model for fold recognition. Different features of proteins were treated as different views of proteins, including the evolutionary information, secondary structure information and physicochemical properties. These different views constituted the latent space. The ε-dragging technique was employed to enlarge the margins between different protein folds, improving the predictive performance of MV-fold. Then, MV-fold was combined with two template-based methods: HHblits and HMMER. The ensemble method is called MT-fold incorporating the advantages of both discriminative methods and template-based methods. Experimental results on five widely used benchmark datasets (DD, RDD, EDD, TG and LE) showed that the proposed methods outperformed some state-of-the-art methods in this field, indicating that MV-fold and MT-fold are useful computational tools for protein fold recognition and protein homology detection and would be efficient tools for protein sequence analysis. Finally, we constructed an update and rigorous benchmark dataset based on SCOPe (version 2.07) to fairly evaluate the performance of the proposed method, and our method achieved stable performance on this new dataset. This new benchmark dataset will become a widely used benchmark dataset to fairly evaluate the performance of different methods for fold recognition.
Supplementary information
Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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- Ke Yan
- School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, China
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
- School of Computer Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China
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Liu B, Chen J, Guo M, Wang X. Protein Remote Homology Detection and Fold Recognition Based on Sequence-Order Frequency Matrix. IEEE/ACM TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AND BIOINFORMATICS 2019; 16:292-300. [PMID: 29990004 DOI: 10.1109/tcbb.2017.2765331] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Protein remote homology detection and fold recognition are two critical tasks for the studies of protein structures and functions. Currently, the profile-based methods achieve the state-of-the-art performance in these fields. However, the widely used sequence profiles, like position-specific frequency matrix (PSFM) and position-specific scoring matrix (PSSM), ignore the sequence-order effects along protein sequence. In this study, we have proposed a novel profile, called sequence-order frequency matrix (SOFM), to extract the sequence-order information of neighboring residues from multiple sequence alignment (MSA). Combined with two profile feature extraction approaches, top-n-grams and the Smith-Waterman algorithm, the SOFMs are applied to protein remote homology detection and fold recognition, and two predictors called SOFM-Top and SOFM-SW are proposed. Experimental results show that SOFM contains more information content than other profiles, and these two predictors outperform other state-of-the-art methods. It is anticipated that SOFM will become a very useful profile in the studies of protein structures and functions.
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Liu B, Jiang S, Zou Q. HITS-PR-HHblits: protein remote homology detection by combining PageRank and Hyperlink-Induced Topic Search. Brief Bioinform 2018; 21:298-308. [PMID: 30403770 DOI: 10.1093/bib/bby104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2018] [Revised: 10/03/2018] [Accepted: 10/04/2018] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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As one of the most important fundamental problems in protein sequence analysis, protein remote homology detection is critical for both theoretical research (protein structure and function studies) and real world applications (drug design). Although several computational predictors have been proposed, their detection performance is still limited. In this study, we treat protein remote homology detection as a document retrieval task, where the proteins are considered as documents and its aim is to find the highly related documents with the query documents in a database. A protein similarity network was constructed based on the true labels of proteins in the database, and the query proteins were then connected into the network based on the similarity scores calculated by three ranking methods, including PSI-BLAST, Hmmer and HHblits. The PageRank algorithm and Hyperlink-Induced Topic Search (HITS) algorithm were respectively performed on this network to move the homologous proteins of query proteins to the neighbors of the query proteins in the network. Finally, PageRank and HITS algorithms were combined, and a predictor called HITS-PR-HHblits was proposed to further improve the predictive performance. Tested on the SCOP and SCOPe benchmark datasets, the experimental results showed that the proposed protocols outperformed other state-of-the-art methods. For the convenience of the most experimental scientists, a web server for HITS-PR-HHblits was established at http://bioinformatics.hitsz.edu.cn/HITS-PR-HHblits, by which the users can easily get the results without the need to go through the mathematical details. The HITS-PR-HHblits predictor is a protocol for protein remote homology detection using different sets of programs, which will become a very useful computational tool for proteome analysis.
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- Bin Liu
- School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China
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- Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
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PubMed is a free search engine for biomedical literature accessed by millions of users from around the world each day. With the rapid growth of biomedical literature—about two articles are added every minute on average—finding and retrieving the most relevant papers for a given query is increasingly challenging. We present Best Match, a new relevance search algorithm for PubMed that leverages the intelligence of our users and cutting-edge machine-learning technology as an alternative to the traditional date sort order. The Best Match algorithm is trained with past user searches with dozens of relevance-ranking signals (factors), the most important being the past usage of an article, publication date, relevance score, and type of article. This new algorithm demonstrates state-of-the-art retrieval performance in benchmarking experiments as well as an improved user experience in real-world testing (over 20% increase in user click-through rate). Since its deployment in June 2017, we have observed a significant increase (60%) in PubMed searches with relevance sort order: it now assists millions of PubMed searches each week. In this work, we hope to increase the awareness and transparency of this new relevance sort option for PubMed users, enabling them to retrieve information more effectively.
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Liu Y, Wang X, Liu B. IDP⁻CRF: Intrinsically Disordered Protein/Region Identification Based on Conditional Random Fields. Int J Mol Sci 2018; 19:E2483. [PMID: 30135358 PMCID: PMC6164615 DOI: 10.3390/ijms19092483] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2018] [Revised: 08/14/2018] [Accepted: 08/18/2018] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Accurate prediction of intrinsically disordered proteins/regions is one of the most important tasks in bioinformatics, and some computational predictors have been proposed to solve this problem. How to efficiently incorporate the sequence-order effect is critical for constructing an accurate predictor because disordered region distributions show global sequence patterns. In order to capture these sequence patterns, several sequence labelling models have been applied to this field, such as conditional random fields (CRFs). However, these methods suffer from certain disadvantages. In this study, we proposed a new computational predictor called IDP⁻CRF, which is trained on an updated benchmark dataset based on the MobiDB database and the DisProt database, and incorporates more comprehensive sequence-based features, including PSSMs (position-specific scoring matrices), kmer, predicted secondary structures, and relative solvent accessibilities. Experimental results on the benchmark dataset and two independent datasets show that IDP⁻CRF outperforms 25 existing state-of-the-art methods in this field, demonstrating that IDP⁻CRF is a very useful tool for identifying IDPs/IDRs (intrinsically disordered proteins/regions). We anticipate that IDP⁻CRF will facilitate the development of protein sequence analysis.
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- Yumeng Liu
- School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen 518055, Guangdong, China.
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen 518055, Guangdong, China.
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen 518055, Guangdong, China.
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Gao CF, Wu XY. Feature extraction method for proteins based on Markov tripeptide by compressive sensing. BMC Bioinformatics 2018; 19:229. [PMID: 29914376 PMCID: PMC6006778 DOI: 10.1186/s12859-018-2235-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2018] [Accepted: 06/04/2018] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND In order to capture the vital structural information of the original protein, the symbol sequence was transformed into the Markov frequency matrix according to the consecutive three residues throughout the chain. A three-dimensional sparse matrix sized 20 × 20 × 20 was obtained and expanded to one-dimensional vector. Then, an appropriate measurement matrix was selected for the vector to obtain a compressed feature set by random projection. Consequently, the new compressive sensing feature extraction technology was proposed. RESULTS Several indexes were analyzed on the cell membrane, cytoplasm, and nucleus dataset to detect the discrimination of the features. In comparison with the traditional methods of scale wavelet energy and amino acid components, the experimental results suggested the advantage and accuracy of the features by this new method. CONCLUSIONS The new features extracted from this model could preserve the maximum information contained in the sequence and reflect the essential properties of the protein. Thus, it is an adequate and potential method in collecting and processing the protein sequence from a large sample size and high dimension.
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- C. F. Gao
- School of Science, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214122 China
- Wuxi Engineering Research Center for Biocomputing, Wuxi, 214122 China
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- School of Science, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214122 China
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A Novel Modeling in Mathematical Biology for Classification of Signal Peptides. Sci Rep 2018; 8:1039. [PMID: 29348418 PMCID: PMC5773712 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-19491-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2017] [Accepted: 01/02/2018] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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The molecular structure of macromolecules in living cells is ambiguous unless we classify them in a scientific manner. Signal peptides are of vital importance in determining the behavior of newly formed proteins towards their destined path in cellular and extracellular location in both eukaryotes and prokaryotes. In the present research work, a novel method is offered to foreknow the behavior of signal peptides and determine their cleavage site. The proposed model employs neural networks using isolated sets of prokaryote and eukaryote primary sequences. Protein sequences are classified as secretory or non-secretory in order to investigate secretory proteins and their signal peptides. In comparison with the previous prediction tools, the proposed algorithm is more rigorous, well-organized, significantly appropriate and highly accurate for the examination of signal peptides even in extensive collection of protein sequences.
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Li S, Chen J, Liu B. Protein remote homology detection based on bidirectional long short-term memory. BMC Bioinformatics 2017; 18:443. [PMID: 29017445 PMCID: PMC5634958 DOI: 10.1186/s12859-017-1842-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2017] [Accepted: 09/21/2017] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Protein remote homology detection plays a vital role in studies of protein structures and functions. Almost all of the traditional machine leaning methods require fixed length features to represent the protein sequences. However, it is never an easy task to extract the discriminative features with limited knowledge of proteins. On the other hand, deep learning technique has demonstrated its advantage in automatically learning representations. It is worthwhile to explore the applications of deep learning techniques to the protein remote homology detection. RESULTS In this study, we employ the Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (BLSTM) to learn effective features from pseudo proteins, also propose a predictor called ProDec-BLSTM: it includes input layer, bidirectional LSTM, time distributed dense layer and output layer. This neural network can automatically extract the discriminative features by using bidirectional LSTM and the time distributed dense layer. CONCLUSION Experimental results on a widely-used benchmark dataset show that ProDec-BLSTM outperforms other related methods in terms of both the mean ROC and mean ROC50 scores. This promising result shows that ProDec-BLSTM is a useful tool for protein remote homology detection. Furthermore, the hidden patterns learnt by ProDec-BLSTM can be interpreted and visualized, and therefore, additional useful information can be obtained.
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- Shumin Li
- School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen Graduate School, HIT Campus Shenzhen University Town, Xili, Shenzhen, 518055, China
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen Graduate School, HIT Campus Shenzhen University Town, Xili, Shenzhen, 518055, China
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen Graduate School, HIT Campus Shenzhen University Town, Xili, Shenzhen, 518055, China.
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