Title
DeepGO: Predicting protein functions from sequence and interactions using a deep ontology-aware classifier.
Abstract
Motivation: A large number of protein sequences are becoming available through the application of novel high-throughput sequencing technologies. Experimental functional characterization of these proteins is time-consuming and expensive, and is often only done rigorously for few selected model organisms. Computational function prediction approaches have been suggested to fill this gap. The functions of proteins are classified using the Gene Ontology (GO), which contains over 40 000 classes. Additionally, proteins have multiple functions, making function prediction a large-scale, multi-class, multi-label problem. Results: We have developed a novel method to predict protein function from sequence. We use deep learning to learn features from protein sequences as well as a cross-species protein-protein interaction network. Our approach specifically outputs information in the structure of the GO and utilizes the dependencies between GO classes as background information to construct a deep learning model. We evaluate our method using the standards established by the Computational Assessment of Function Annotation (CAFA) and demonstrate a significant improvement over baseline methods such as BLAST, in particular for predicting cellular locations.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1093/bioinformatics/btx624
BIOINFORMATICS
DocType
Volume
Issue
Journal
34
4
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1367-4803
21
0.77
References 
Authors
16
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Maxat Kulmanov1383.86
Mohammed Asif Khan2261.17
Robert Hoehndorf366753.18