Document Type

Article

Publication Date

11-2020

DOI

10.1186/s12859-020-3504-z

Publication Title

BMC Bioinformatics

Volume

21

Issue

Suppl 6

Pages

1-12 pp.

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.

Results: Our results show that DeepFrag-k yields 92.98% accuracy in predicting the top-100 most popular fragments, which can be used to generate discriminative fragment feature vectors to improve protein fold recognition.

Conclusions: There is a set of fragments that can serve as structural “keywords” distinguishing between major protein folds. The deep learning architecture in DeepFrag-k is able to accurately identify these fragments as structure features to improve protein fold recognition.

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Original Publication Citation

Elhefnawy, W., Li, M., Wang, J., & Li, Y. (2020). DeepFrag-k: A fragment-based deep learning approach for protein fold recognition. BMC Bioinformatics, 21(Supplement 6), 1-12, Article 203. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-020-3504-z

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