Title
SVM-dependent pairwise HMM: an application to Protein pairwise alignments.
Abstract
Motivation: Methods able to provide reliable protein alignments are crucial for many bioinformatics applications. In the last years many different algorithms have been developed and various kinds of information, from sequence conservation to secondary structure, have been used to improve the alignment performances. This is especially relevant for proteins with highly divergent sequences. However, recent works suggest that different features may have different importance in diverse protein classes and it would be an advantage to have more customizable approaches, capable to deal with different alignment definitions. Results: Here we present Rigapollo, a highly flexible pairwise alignment method based on a pairwise HMM-SVM that can use any type of information to build alignments. Rigapollo lets the user decide the optimal features to align their protein class of interest. It outperforms current state of the art methods on two well-known benchmark datasets when aligning highly divergent sequences.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1093/bioinformatics/btx391
BIOINFORMATICS
Field
DocType
Volume
Sequence alignment,Pairwise comparison,Data mining,Computer science,Markov chain,Support vector machine,Software,Hidden Markov model,Protein secondary structure,Python (programming language)
Journal
33
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
24
1367-4803
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
15
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gabriele Orlando162.24
Daniele Raimondi282.95
Taushif Khan320.70
Tom Lenaerts427653.44
Wim F. Vranken511219.85