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Combining Evolutionary Information
Extracted From Frequency Profiles With
Sequence-based Kernels For Protein
Remote Homology Detection
Name: ZhuFangzhi
ID: 14S051034
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To further improve protein remote homology detection, a key
step is how to find an optimal means to extract the
evolutionary information into the profiles.
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In this paper, three top performing sequence-based kernels
(SVM-Ngram, SVM-pairwise and SVM-LA) were combined with
the profile-based protein representation. Various tests were
conducted on a SCOP benchmark dataset that contains 54
families and 23 super-families.
 Results:
The results showed that the new approach is promising, and
can obviously improve the performance of the three kernels.
ABSTRACT
 Availability
and implementation(source code)
http://bioinformatics.hitsz.edu.cn/main/*binliu/remote/
 Supplementary
information:
Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online
 Contact:
[email protected] or [email protected]
ABSTRACT
Backgrounds:
Considerable
differences in magnitude(2013-5)
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protein structures in the Protein Data Bank: 89003
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protein sequences in the Swiss-Prot database: 539616
Goal: Predict the target protein’s family
Some methods:
Based on the generative model :
 the hidden Markov model (HMM)
Based on the discriminative model :
 support vector machine (SVM)
 the kernel combination methodology(VBKC)
1. INTRODUCTION
 These proteins were selected from SCOP version 1.53
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The 4352 proteins in Scan be classified into 853
super families and 1356 families
2.1. SCOP BENCHMARK
2. MATERIALS AND METHOD
SCOP BENCHMARK
2. MATERIALS AND METHOD
SCOP BENCHMARK
2. MATERIALS AND METHOD
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The frequency profile M for protein P with L amino
acids can be represented by
target
frequency
Calculated from the multiple sequence alignments
generated by running PSI-BLAST
PROTEIN FREQUENCY PROFILE
2. MATERIALS AND METHOD
Sorting
P1,p2,…p20
PROFILE-BASED PROTEIN REPRESENTATION
2. MATERIALS AND METHOD
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Discriminative methods based on SVM are the most effective and
accurate methods for remote protein detection.
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Validate whether the proposed approach could improve their
performance:
SVM-Ngram, SVM-pairwise, SVM-LA
At the heart of the SVM is a kernel function :
Where X and Y are two proteins in the dataset, This normalized
step was also used by SVM-pairwise and SVM-LA.
SEQUENCE-BASED KERNELS
2. MATERIALS AND METHOD
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The MKL technique aimed to combine different kernels to
improve the performance.
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The weight of each kernel can be optimized based on different
criterion, which can be categorized by
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two groups.
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1. one-stage kernel learning methods.
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2. two-stage kernel learning methods(showed better performance with
reduced training cost).
 KTA(the kernel target alignment):
optimize the weight of each kernel
MULTIPLE KERNEL LEARNING
2. MATERIALS AND METHOD
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m training samples : x1,x2,…,xm
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Labels: y1,y2,…,ym
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ideal kernel matrix,
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n kernels K1, K2, . . . Kn
MULTIPLE KERNEL LEARNING
y= [y1, y2, . . . , ym].
2. MATERIALS AND METHOD
learn the weight of each kernel(KTA)
2. Normalization
3. Combination
Cortes,C. et al. (2010) Two-stage learning kernel algorithms. In: Proceedings of the 27th
International Conference on Machine Learning. pp. 239–246.
MULTIPLE KERNEL LEARNING
2. MATERIALS AND METHOD
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The positive and negative samples are not evenly distributed:
the test sets have many more negative than positive samples.
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The best way to evaluate the trade-off between the specificity
and sensitivity is to use a receiver operating characteristic (ROC)
score.
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Another performance measure: ROC50
(The area under the ROC curve up to the first 50 false positives)
EVALUATION METHODOLOGY(ROC & ROC50)
2. MATERIALS AND METHOD
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The frequency profile of a protein P can be converted into 20
profile-based proteins (p1, p2,..., p20) by using the proposed
approach .
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In this study, only the top n most important profile-based
proteins (p1,...,pn) were used in the prediction.
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To select the value of n: The frequencies of 20 standard amino
acids in each column of a frequency profiles add up to 1.
Therefore, the average frequency is 0.05.
p1, p2 and p3
(99.99%, 99.60% and
98.13%,
 Therefore,
in this study, only the top three profile-based proteins
respectively)
were
used in the prediction.
PROFILE-BASED PROTEIN REPRESENTATION CAN IMPROVE THE
PERFORMANCE OF METHODS BASED ON SEQUENCE COMPOSITION
3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
3.7-7.5%
9.6-13.7%
PROFILE-BASED PROTEIN REPRESENTATION CAN IMPROVE THE
PERFORMANCE OF METHODS BASED ON SEQUENCE COMPOSITION
3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
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The MKL framework was used to combine these methods.
The KTA method was used to automatically optimize the weight of
each kernel on the training set.
Then these kernels are combined with weights into a single
kernel for the SVM-based prediction
 VBKC is another method based on the MKL
( Four string kernels:
SVM-pairwise SVM-LA
SVM-MM and SVM-Mono )
COMBINING DIFFERENT METHODS VIA MKL
3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
1.2-2.2%
29.9-31.3%
Combining different methods via MKL
3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
Calculate the discriminant weight for each Ngram(Lingner and Meinicke, 2008):
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the weight vector of a set of M sequences
α=[α1, α2, α3,..., αM]
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F is the matrix of sequence representatives
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the element in w represents the discriminative power of the
corresponding feature.
These Ngrams would be the important sequence
patterns for maintaining the structure and
function of this protein family.
Correlations Between Discriminative Power Of Ngrams
And Protein Families
3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
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It is anticipated that the proposed method for detecting
remote homology proteins will certainly enhance the power
of homology modeling, and hence have impacts on drug
development as well.
4. CONCLUSION
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