NeBcon: protein contact map prediction using neural network training coupled with naïve Bayes classifiers.

Journal: Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)
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Abstract

MOTIVATION: Recent CASP experiments have witnessed exciting progress on folding large-size non-humongous proteins with the assistance of co-evolution based contact predictions. The success is however anecdotal due to the requirement of the contact prediction methods for the high volume of sequence homologs that are not available to most of the non-humongous protein targets. Development of efficient methods that can generate balanced and reliable contact maps for different type of protein targets is essential to enhance the success rate of the ab initio protein structure prediction.

Authors

  • Baoji He
    Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.
  • S M Mortuza
    Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
  • Yanting Wang
    Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.
  • Hong-Bin Shen
    Institute of Image Processing and Pattern Recognition, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, People's Republic of China. hbshen@sjtu.edu.cn.
  • Yang Zhang
    Innovative Institute of Chinese Medicine and Pharmacy, Academy for Interdiscipline, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, China.