Abstract
Protein 3D structure prediction has always been an important research area in bioinformatics. In particular, the prediction of secondary structure has been a well-studied research topic. Despite the recent breakthrough of combining multiple sequence alignment information and artificial intelligence algorithms to predict protein secondary structure, the Q3 accuracy of various computational prediction algorithms rarely has exceeded 75%. In a previous paper [1], this research team presented a rule-based method called RT-RICO (Relaxed Threshold Rule Induction from Coverings) to predict protein secondary structure. The average Q3 accuracy on the sample datasets using RT-RICO was 80.3%, an improvement over comparable computational methods. Although this demonstrated that RT-RICO might be a promising approach for predicting secondary structure, the algorithm's computational complexity and program running time limited its use. Herein a parallelized implementation of a slightly modified RT-RICO approach is presented. This new version of the algorithm facilitated the testing of a much larger dataset of 396 protein domains [2]. Parallelized RTRICO achieved a Q3 score of 74.6%, which is higher than the consensus prediction accuracy of 72.9% that was achieved for the same test dataset by a combination of four secondary structure prediction methods [2].
Recommended Citation
L. Lee et al., "Protein Secondary Structure Prediction using Parallelized Rule Induction from Coverings," Proceedings of the World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, vol. 36, pp. 388 - 394, World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, Dec 2009.
Department(s)
Computer Science
Second Department
Biological Sciences
Keywords and Phrases
Data Mining; Parallelization; Protein Secondary Structure Prediction
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
2010-376X
Document Type
Article - Journal
Document Version
Final Version
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
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© 2009 World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, All rights reserved.
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Publication Date
01 Dec 2009