Abstract:
:Due to the structural and functional importance of tight turns, some methods have been proposed to predict gamma-turns, beta-turns, and alpha-turns in proteins. In the past, studies of pi-turns were made, but not a single prediction approach has been developed so far. It will be useful to develop a method for identifying pi-turns in a protein sequence. In this paper, the support vector machine (SVM) method has been introduced to predict pi-turns from the amino acid sequence. The training and testing of this approach is performed with a newly collected data set of 640 non-homologous protein chains containing 1931 pi-turns. Different sequence encoding schemes have been explored in order to investigate their effects on the prediction performance. With multiple sequence alignment and predicted secondary structure, the final SVM model yields a Matthews correlation coefficient (MCC) of 0.556 by a 7-fold cross-validation. A web server implementing the prediction method is available at the following URL: http://210.42.106.80/piturn/.
journal_name
Biochem Biophys Res Communjournal_title
Biochemical and biophysical research communicationsauthors
Wang Y,Xue ZD,Shi XH,Xu Jdoi
10.1016/j.bbrc.2006.06.066subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2006-09-01 00:00:00pages
574-80issue
3eissn
0006-291Xissn
1090-2104pii
S0006-291X(06)01386-6journal_volume
347pub_type
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