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Novel Nonlinear Knowledge-Based Mean Force Potentials Based on Machine Learning
March/April 2011 (vol. 8 no. 2)
pp. 476-486
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Qiwen Dong, Shuigeng Zhou, "Novel Nonlinear Knowledge-Based Mean Force Potentials Based on Machine Learning," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 476-486, March/April, 2011.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/TCBB.2010.86,
author = {Qiwen Dong and Shuigeng Zhou},
title = {Novel Nonlinear Knowledge-Based Mean Force Potentials Based on Machine Learning},
journal ={IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics},
volume = {8},
number = {2},
issn = {1545-5963},
year = {2011},
pages = {476-486},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TCBB.2010.86},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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TY - JOUR
JO - IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
TI - Novel Nonlinear Knowledge-Based Mean Force Potentials Based on Machine Learning
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SN - 1545-5963
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EPD - 476-486
A1 - Qiwen Dong,
A1 - Shuigeng Zhou,
PY - 2011
KW - Mean force potential
KW - nonlinear potential
KW - protein structure prediction
KW - protein docking.
VL - 8
JA - IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
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Qiwen Dong, Fudan university, Shanghai
Shuigeng Zhou, Fudan university, Shanghai
The prediction of 3D structures of proteins from amino acid sequences is one of the most challenging problems in molecular biology. An essential task for solving this problem with coarse-grained models is to deduce effective interaction potentials. The development and evaluation of new energy functions is critical to accurately modeling the properties of biological macromolecules. Knowledge-based mean force potentials are derived from statistical analysis of proteins of known structures. Current knowledge-based potentials are almost in the form of weighted linear sum of interaction pairs. In this study, a class of novel nonlinear knowledge-based mean force potentials is presented. The potential parameters are obtained by nonlinear classifiers, instead of relative frequencies of interaction pairs against a reference state or linear classifiers. The support vector machine is used to derive the potential parameters on data sets that contain both native structures and decoy structures. Five knowledge-based mean force Boltzmann-based or linear potentials are introduced and their corresponding nonlinear potentials are implemented. They are the DIH potential (single-body residue-level Boltzmann-based potential), the DFIRE-SCM potential (two-body residue-level Boltzmann-based potential), the FS potential (two-body atom-level Boltzmann-based potential), the HR potential (two-body residue-level linear potential), and the T32S3 potential (two-body atom-level linear potential). Experiments are performed on well-established decoy sets, including the LKF data set, the CASP7 data set, and the Decoys “R”Us data set. The evaluation metrics include the energy Z score and the ability of each potential to discriminate native structures from a set of decoy structures. Experimental results show that all nonlinear potentials significantly outperform the corresponding Boltzmann-based or linear potentials, and the proposed discriminative framework is effective in developing knowledge-based mean force potentials. The nonlinear potentials can be widely used for ab initio protein structure prediction, model quality assessment, protein docking, and other challenging problems in computational biology.

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Index Terms:
Mean force potential, nonlinear potential, protein structure prediction, protein docking.
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Qiwen Dong, Shuigeng Zhou, "Novel Nonlinear Knowledge-Based Mean Force Potentials Based on Machine Learning," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 476-486, March-April 2011, doi:10.1109/TCBB.2010.86
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