Enhanced Protein Structural Class Prediction Using Effective Feature Modeling and Ensemble of Classifiers

An Effective Multi-Label Protein Sub-Chloroplast Localization Prediction by Skipped-Grams of Evolutionary Profiles Using Deep Neural Network

Chloroplast is one of the most classic organelles in algae and plant cells. Identifying the locations of chloroplast proteins in the chloroplast organelle is an important as well as a challenging task in deciphering their functions. Biological-based experiments to identify the Protein Sub-Chloroplast Localization (PSCL) is time-consuming and cost-intensive. Over the last decade, a few computational methods have been developed to predict PSCL in which earlier works assumed to predict only single-location; whereas, recent works are able to predict multiple-locations of chloroplast organelle. However, the performances of all the state-of-the-art predictors are poor. This article proposes a novel skip-gram technique to extract highly discriminating patterns from evolutionary profiles and a multi-label deep neural network to predict the PSCL. The proposed model is assessed on two publicly available datasets, i.e., Benchmark and Novel. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed work outperforms significantly when compared to the state-of-the-art multi-label PSCL predictors. A multi-label prediction accuracy (i.e., Overall Actual Accuracy) of the proposed model is enhanced by an absolute minimum margin of 6.7 percent on Benchmark dataset and 7.9 percent on Novel dataset when compared to the best PSCL predictor from the literature. Further, result of statistical t-test concludes that the performance of the proposed work is significantly improved and thus, the proposed work is an effective computational model to solve multi-label PSCL prediction. The proposed prediction model is hosted on web-server and available at https://nitkit-vgst727-nppsa.nitk.ac.in/deeplocpred/.

An Enhanced Protein Fold Recognition for Low Similarity Datasets Using Convolutional and Skip-Gram Features With Deep Neural Network

The protein fold recognition is one of the important tasks of structural biology, which helps in addressing further challenges like predicting the protein tertiary structures and its functions. Many machine learning works are published to identify the protein folds effectively. However, very few works have reported the fold recognition accuracy above 80% on benchmark datasets. In this study, an effective set of global and local features are extracted from the proposed Convolutional (Conv) and SkipXGram bi-gram (SXGbg) techniques, and the fold recognition is performed using the proposed deep neural network. The performance of the proposed model reported 91.4% fold accuracy on one of the derived low similarity (< 25%) datasets of latest extended version of SCOPe_2.07. The proposed model is further evaluated on three popular and publicly available benchmark datasets such as DD, EDD, and TG and obtained 85.9%, 95.8%, and 88.8% fold accuracies, respectively. This work is first to report fold recognition accuracy above 85% on all the benchmark datasets. The performance of the proposed model has outperformed the best state-of-the-art models by 5% to 23% on DD, 2% to 19% on EDD, and 3% to 30% on TG dataset.