DeepFrag-k: a fragment-based deep learning approach for protein fold recognition.

Journal: BMC bioinformatics
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: One of the most essential problems in structural bioinformatics is protein fold recognition. In this paper, we design a novel deep learning architecture, so-called DeepFrag-k, which identifies fold discriminative features at fragment level to improve the accuracy of protein fold recognition. DeepFrag-k is composed of two stages: the first stage employs a multi-modal Deep Belief Network (DBN) to predict the potential structural fragments given a sequence, represented as a fragment vector, and then the second stage uses a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) to classify the fragment vector into the corresponding fold.

Authors

  • Wessam Elhefnawy
    Department of Computer Science, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, U.S.A.
  • Min Li
    Hubei Provincial Institute for Food Supervision and Test, Hubei Provincial Engineering and Technology Research Center for Food Quality and Safety Test, Wuhan 430075, China.
  • Jianxin Wang
  • Yaohang Li