A knowledge of protein functions is crucial for the development of new drugs, better crops and synthetic biochemicals. To understand the structure-to-function relationship, life-sciences researchers and biologists need to retrieve similar structures from protein databases and classify them into the same protein fold. With technological development the number of determined protein structures increases rapidly, so retrieving structurally similar proteins using current structural alignment algorithms may take hours or even days. Therefore, improving the efficiency of the protein structure retrieval and classification becomes an important research issue. In this paper we present two HMMs (Hidden Markov Models) which provide faster classification of protein structures. Our first method considers secondary structures, while our second method builds a profile of the tertiary structures of protein molecules. We have made a comparison of these two algorithms, and the results showed that by considering the information contained in the protein tertiary structure, a higher precision is achieved. Additionally, we have compared our HMM method based on tertiary structures against an existing method named 3D HMM. This analysis showed that our method is more accurate than 3D HMM.
목차
Abstract I. INTRODUCTION II. OUR HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS III. EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS IV. CONCLUSION REFERENCES
키워드
Protein classificationsecondary structuretertiary structureHidden Markov Model (HMM)3D HMM
저자
Georgina Mirceva [ Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Macedonia ]
Miroslav Mirchev [ Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Macedonia ]
Danco Davcev [ Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Macedonia ]