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2005 IEEE Computational Systems Bioinformatics Conference - Workshops (CSBW'05)
Analysis of four different sets of predictive features for metalloproteins
Stanford, California
August 08-August 11
ISBN: 0-7695-2442-7
Huseyin Seker, De Montfort University
Parvez I. Haris, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, De Montfort University

Metals bound to the protein are important for functional or structural roles. Despite their importance there is a distinct lack of research for identification of metalloproteins from sequence data and their predictive features that help distinguish them from non-metal binding proteins. In this study, four sets of features were analysed in order to see their ability to distinguish between metal and non-metal binding proteins. The analysis was carried out using a novel fuzzy logic method. The results show that the amino acid composition is more capable of distinguishing metal from non-metal binding proteins, than any of the other three features, yielding a predictive accuracy of 69.4%. Cofactors were the least useful feature for distinguishing metalloproteins. However, better results were obtained when physico-chemical and secondary structure features are used, yielding accuracies of 67.8% and 67.1%, respectively. Although the amino acid composition yields the highest predictive accuracy, considering the number of features, the latter two sets of features may be more appropriate for such analysis.

Citation:
Huseyin Seker, Parvez I. Haris, "Analysis of four different sets of predictive features for metalloproteins," csbw, pp.228-232, 2005 IEEE Computational Systems Bioinformatics Conference - Workshops (CSBW'05), 2005
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