Local-DPP: An improved DNA-binding protein prediction method by exploring local evolutionary information

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• 作者：Leyi Wei^a ; Jijun Tang^a ; ^b ; Quan Zou^a ; ^{zouquan@nclab.net}
• 关键词：DNA-binding protein prediction ; Random forest ; Local evolutionary information ; Machine learning-based method ; Feature representation algorithm
• 刊名：Information Sciences
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：April 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：384
• 期：Complete
• 页码：135-144
• 全文大小：859 K
• 卷排序：384

文摘

Increased knowledge of DNA-binding proteins would enhance our understanding of protein functions in cellular biological processes. To handle the explosive growth of protein sequence data, researchers have developed machine learning-based methods that quickly and accurately predict DNA-binding proteins. In recent years, the predictive accuracy of machine learning-based predictors has significantly advanced, but the predictive performance remains unsatisfactory. In this paper, we establish a novel predictor named Local-DPP, which combines the local Pse-PSSM (Pseudo Position-Specific Scoring Matrix) features with the random forest classifier. The proposed features can efficiently capture the local conservation information, together with the sequence-order information, from the evolutionary profiles (PSSMs). We evaluate and compare the Local-DPP predictor with state-of-the-art predictors on two stringent benchmark datasets (one for the jackknife test, the other for an independent test). The proposed Local-DPP significantly improved the accuracy of the existing predictors, from 77.3% to 79.2% and 76.9% to 79.0% in the jackknife and independent tests, respectively. This demonstrates the efficacy and effectiveness of Local-DPP in predicting DNA-binding proteins. The proposed Local-DPP is now freely accessible to the public through the user-friendly webserver http://server.malab.cn/Local-DPP/Index.html.