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IEEE Computer Society Bioinformatics Conference (CSB'02)
A Bi-Recursive Neural Network Architecture for the Prediction of Protein Coarse Contact Maps
Stanford, California
August 14-August 16
ISBN: 0-7695-1653-X
Alessandro Vullo, University of Florence
Paolo Frasconi, University of Florence
Prediction of contact maps may be seen as a strategic step towards the solution of fundamental open problems in structural genomics. In this paper we focus on coarse grained maps that describe the spatial neighborhood relation between secondary structure elements (helices, strands, and coils) of a protein. We introduce a new machine learning approach for scoring candidate contact maps. The method combines a specialized noncausal recursive connectionist architecture and a heuristic graph search algorithm. The network is trained using candidate graphs generated during search. We show how the process of selecting and generating training examples is important for tuning the precision of the predictor.
Index Terms:
Protein contact maps, machine learning, recursive neural networks
Citation:
Alessandro Vullo, Paolo Frasconi, "A Bi-Recursive Neural Network Architecture for the Prediction of Protein Coarse Contact Maps," csb, pp.187, IEEE Computer Society Bioinformatics Conference (CSB'02), 2002
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