Title
Wavelet images and Chou's pseudo amino acid composition for protein classification
Abstract
The last decade has seen an explosion in the collection of protein data. To actualize the potential offered by this wealth of data, it is important to develop machine systems capable of classifying and extracting features from proteins. Reliable machine systems for protein classification offer many benefits, including the promise of finding novel drugs and vaccines. In developing our system, we analyze and compare several feature extraction methods used in protein classification that are based on the calculation of texture descriptors starting from a wavelet representation of the protein. We then feed these texture-based representations of the protein into an Adaboost ensemble of neural network or a support vector machine classifier. In addition, we perform experiments that combine our feature extraction methods with a standard method that is based on the Chou's pseudo amino acid composition. Using several datasets, we show that our best approach outperforms standard methods. The Matlab code of the proposed protein descriptors is available at http://bias.csr.unibo.it/nanni/wave.rar.
Department(s)
Information Technology and Cybersecurity
Document Type
Article
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00726-011-1114-9
Keywords
Ensemble of classifiers, Machine learning, Proteins classification, Support vector machines
Publication Date
8-1-2012
Recommended Citation
Nanni, Loris, Sheryl Brahnam, and Alessandra Lumini. "Wavelet images and Chou’s pseudo amino acid composition for protein classification." Amino Acids 43, no. 2 (2012): 657-665.
Journal Title
Amino Acids
