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PseDNA‐Pro: DNA‐Binding Protein Identification by Combining Chou’s PseAAC and Physicochemical Distance Transformation
Author(s) -
Liu Bin,
Xu Jinghao,
Fan Shixi,
Xu Ruifeng,
Zhou Jiyun,
Wang Xiaolong
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
molecular informatics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.481
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1868-1751
pISSN - 1868-1743
DOI - 10.1002/minf.201400025
Subject(s) - pseudo amino acid composition , support vector machine , protein sequencing , transformation (genetics) , benchmark (surveying) , computer science , artificial intelligence , computational biology , sequence (biology) , feature vector , feature (linguistics) , protein methods , dna , dna sequencing , machine learning , pattern recognition (psychology) , peptide sequence , sequence analysis , amino acid , biology , biochemistry , gene , linguistics , philosophy , geodesy , dipeptide , geography
Identification of DNA-binding proteins is an important problem in biomedical research as DNA-binding proteins are crucial for various cellular processes. Currently, the machine learning methods achieve the-state-of-the-art performance with different features. A key step to improve the performance of these methods is to find a suitable representation of proteins. In this study, we proposed a feature vector composed of three kinds of sequence-based features, including overall amino acid composition, pseudo amino acid composition (PseAAC) proposed by Chou and physicochemical distance transformation. These features not only consider the sequence composition of proteins, but also incorporate the sequence-order information of amino acids in proteins. The feature vectors were fed into Support Vector Machine (SVM) for DNA-binding protein identification. The proposed method is called PseDNA-Pro. Experiments on stringent benchmark datasets and independent test datasets by using the Jackknife test showed that PseDNA-Pro can achieve an accuracy of higher than 80 %, outperforming several state-of-the-art methods, including DNAbinder, DNA-Prot, and iDNA-Prot. These results indicate that the combination of various features for DNA-binding protein prediction is a suitable approach, and the sequence-order information among residues in proteins is relative for discrimination. For practical applications, a web-server of PseDNA-Pro was established, which is available from http://bioinformatics.hitsz.edu.cn/PseDNA-Pro/.