Scoring protein sequence alignments using deep learning.

Journal: Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)
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Abstract

MOTIVATION: A high-quality sequence alignment (SA) is the most important input feature for accurate protein structure prediction. For a protein sequence, there are many methods to generate a SA. However, when given a choice of more than one SA for a protein sequence, there are no methods to predict which SA may lead to more accurate models without actually building the models. In this work, we describe a method to predict the quality of a protein's SA.

Authors

  • Bikash Shrestha
    Department of Computer Science, University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63121, USA.
  • Badri Adhikari
    Department of Computer Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA.