EnsembleFam: towards more accurate protein family prediction in the twilight zone.

Journal: BMC bioinformatics
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Current protein family modeling methods like profile Hidden Markov Model (pHMM), k-mer based methods, and deep learning-based methods do not provide very accurate protein function prediction for proteins in the twilight zone, due to low sequence similarity to reference proteins with known functions.

Authors

  • Mohammad Neamul Kabir
    Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore, 13 Computing Drive, 117417, Singapore, Singapore. neamul@u.nus.edu.
  • Limsoon Wong
    Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore; Department of Pathology, National University of Singapore, Singapore.