Title
ProtDec-LTR3.0: Protein Remote Homology Detection by Incorporating Profile-Based Features Into Learning to Rank.
Abstract
Protein remote homology detection is one of the most challenging problems in the field of protein sequence analysis, which is an important step for both theoretical research (such as the understanding of structures and functions of proteins) and drug design. Previous studies have shown that combining different ranking methods via learning to the rank algorithm is an effective strategy for remote protein homology detection, and the performance can be further improved by the protein similarity networks. In this paper, we improved the ProtDec-LTR1.0 and ProtDec-LTR2.0 predictors by incorporating three profile-based features (Top-1-gram, Top-2-gram, and ACC) into the framework of learning to rank via feature mapping strategies. The predictive performance was further re fined by the pagerank (PR) algorithm and hyperlink-induced topic search (HITS) algorithm. Finally, a predictor called ProtDec-LTR3.0 was proposed. Rigorous tests on two widely used benchmark datasets showed that the ProtDec-LTR3.0 predictor outperformed both ProtDec-LTR1.0 and ProtDec-LTR2.0, and other nine existing state-of-the-art predictors, indicating that the ProtDec-LTR3.0 is an efficient method for protein remote homology detection, and will become a useful tool for protein sequence analysis. A user-friendly web server of the ProtDec-LTR3.0 predictor was established for the convenience of users, which can be accessed at http://bliulab.net/ProtDec-LTR3.0/.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2929363
IEEE ACCESS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Protein remote homology detection,profile-based features,feature mapping strategy,learning to rank,pagerank,hyperlink-induced topic search
Journal
7
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2169-3536
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Bin Liu141933.30
Yulin Zhu200.34