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BACKGROUND:Clustering of protein sequences is of key importance in predicting the structure and function of newly sequenced proteins and is also of use for their annotation. With the advent of multiple high-throughput sequencing technologies, new protein sequences are becoming available at an extraordinary rate. The rapid growth rate has impeded deployment of existing protein clustering/annotation tools which depend largely on pairwise sequence alignment. RESULTS:In this paper, we propose an alignment-free clustering approach, coreClust, for annotating protein sequences using detected conserved regions. The proposed algorithm uses Min-Wise Independent Hashing for identifying similar conserved regions. Min-Wise Independent Hashing works by generating a (w,c)-sketch for each document and comparing these sketches. Our algorithm fits well within the MapReduce framework, permitting scalability. We show that coreClust generates results comparable to existing known methods. In particular, we show that the clusters generated by our algorithm capture the subfamilies of the Pfam domain families for which the sequences in a cluster have a similar domain architecture. We show that for a data set of 90,000 sequences (about 250,000 domain regions), the clusters generated by our algorithm give a 75% average weighted F1 score, our accuracy metric, when compared to the clusters generated by a semi-exhaustive pairwise alignment algorithm. CONCLUSIONS:The new clustering algorithm can be used to generate meaningful clusters of conserved regions. It is a scalable method that when paired with our prior work, NADDA for detecting conserved regions, provides a complete end-to-end pipeline for annotating protein sequences.
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BMC Bioinformaticsjournal_title
BMC bioinformaticsauthors
Abnousi A,Broschat SL,Kalyanaraman Adoi
10.1186/s12859-018-2080-ysubject
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2018-03-05 00:00:00pages
83issue
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1471-2105pii
10.1186/s12859-018-2080-yjournal_volume
19pub_type
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