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ABSTRACT: One of the challenges in protein secondary structure prediction is to overcome the cross-validated 80% prediction accuracy barrier. Here, we propose a novel approach to surpass this barrier. Instead of using a single algorithm that relies on a limited data set for training, we combine two complementary methods having different strengths: Fragment Database Mining (FDM) and GOR V. FDM harnesses the availability of the known protein structures in the Protein Data Bank and provides highly accurate secondary structure predictions when sequentially similar structural fragments are identified. In contrast, the GOR V algorithm is based on information theory, Bayesian statistics, and PSI-BLAST multiple sequence alignments to predict the secondary structure of residues inside a sliding window along a protein chain. A combination of these two different methods benefits from the large number of structures in the PDB and significantly improves the secondary structure prediction accuracy, resulting in Q3 ranging from 67.5 to 93.2%, depending on the availability of highly similar fragments in the Protein Data Bank.
Bioinformatics 11/2007; 23(19):2628-30. · 5.47 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: The major aim of tertiary structure prediction is to obtain protein models with the highest possible accuracy. Fold recognition, homology modeling, and de novo prediction methods typically use predicted secondary structures as input, and all of these methods may significantly benefit from more accurate secondary structure predictions. Although there are many different secondary structure prediction methods available in the literature, their cross-validated prediction accuracy is generally <80%. In order to increase the prediction accuracy, we developed a novel hybrid algorithm called Consensus Data Mining (CDM) that combines our two previous successful methods: (1) Fragment Database Mining (FDM), which exploits the Protein Data Bank structures, and (2) GOR V, which is based on information theory, Bayesian statistics, and multiple sequence alignments (MSA). In CDM, the target sequence is dissected into smaller fragments that are compared with fragments obtained from related sequences in the PDB. For fragments with a sequence identity above a certain sequence identity threshold, the FDM method is applied for the prediction. The remainder of the fragments are predicted by GOR V. The results of the CDM are provided as a function of the upper sequence identities of aligned fragments and the sequence identity threshold. We observe that the value 50% is the optimum sequence identity threshold, and that the accuracy of the CDM method measured by Q(3) ranges from 67.5% to 93.2%, depending on the availability of known structural fragments with sufficiently high sequence identity. As the Protein Data Bank grows, it is anticipated that this consensus method will improve because it will rely more upon the structural fragments.
Protein Science 12/2006; 15(11):2499-506. · 2.80 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: A new method for predicting protein secondary structure from amino acid sequence has been developed. The method is based on multiple sequence alignment of the query sequence with all other sequences with known structure from the protein data bank (PDB) by using BLAST. The fragments of the alignments belonging to proteins from the PBD are then used for further analysis. We have studied various schemes of assigning weights for matching segments and calculated normalized scores to predict one of the three secondary structures: α-helix, β-sheet, or coil. We applied several artificial intelligence techniques: decision trees (DT), neural networks (NN) and support vector machines (SVM) to improve the accuracy of predictions and found that SVM gave the best performance. Preliminary data show that combining the fragment mining approach with GOR V (Kloczkowski et al, Proteins 49 (2002) 154-166) for regions of low sequence similarity improves the prediction accuracy.
Polymer 06/2005; 46(12):4314-4321. · 3.44 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: Accurate protein secondary structure prediction from the amino acid sequence is essential for almost all theoretical and experimental
studies on protein structure and function. After a brief discussion of application of data mining for optimization of crystallization
conditions for target proteins we show that data mining of structural fragments of proteins from known structures in the protein
data bank (PDB) significantly improves the accuracy of secondary structure predictions. The original method was proposed by
us a few years ago and was termed fragment database mining (FDM) (Cheng H, Sen TZ, Kloczkowski A, Margaritis D, Jernigan RL
(2005) Prediction of protein secondary structure by mining structural fragment database. Polymer 46:4314–4321). This method
gives excellent accuracy for predictions if similar sequence fragments are available in our library of structural fragments,
but is less successful if such fragments are absent in the fragments database. Recently we have improved secondary structure
predictions further by combining FDM with classical GOR V (Kloczkowski A, Ting KL, Jernigan RL, Garnier J (2002a) Combining
the GOR V algorithm with evolutionary information for protein secondary structure prediction from amino acid sequence. Proteins
49:154–66; Sen TZ, Jernigan RL, Garnier J, Kloczkowski A (2005) GOR V server for protein secondary structure prediction. Bioinformatics
21:2787–8) predictions to form a combined method, so-called consensus database mining (CDM) (Sen TZ, Cheng H, Kloczkowski
A, Jernigan RL (2006) A Consensus Data Mining secondary structure prediction by combining GOR V and Fragment Database Mining.
Protein Sci 15:2499–506). FDM mines the structural segments of PDB, and utilizes structural information from the matching
sequence fragments for the prediction of protein secondary structures. By combining it with the GOR V secondary structure
prediction method, which is based on information theory and Bayesian statistics, coupled with evolutionary information from
multiple sequence alignments (MSA), our CDM method guarantees improved accuracies of prediction. Additionally, with the constant
growth in the number of new protein structures and folds in the PDB, the accuracy of the CDM method is clearly expected to
increase in future. We have developed a publicly available CDM server (Cheng H, Sen TZ, Jernigan RL, Kloczkowski A (2007)
Consensus Data Mining (CDM) Protein Secondary Structure Prediction Server: combining GOR V and Fragment Database Mining (FDM).
Bioinformatics 23:2628–30) (http://gor.bb.iastate.edu/cdm) for protein secondary structure prediction.
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