Protein backbone dihedral angle prediction based on probabilistic models

  • Xin Geng*
  • , Jihong Guan
  • , Qiwen Dong
  • , Shuigeng Zhou
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Protein backbone dihedral angles are important descriptors of local conformation for amino acids. Protein backbone dihedral angle prediction lays the foundation for prediction of higher-order protein structure. Existing prediction methods of protein backbone angles mainly exploit traditional machine learning techniques. In this paper, we propose to use two well-known types of probabilistic models - maximum entropy Markov models (MEMMs) and conditional random fields (CRFs) to predict the backbone dihedral angles of amino acid sequences. Experiments conducted on dataset PDB25 show that these two probabilistic models are effective in dihedral angle prediction, and CRFs outperform MEMMs.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2010 4th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, iCBBE 2010
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010
Externally publishedYes
Event4th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, iCBBE 2010 - Chengdu, China
Duration: 18 Jun 201020 Jun 2010

Publication series

Name2010 4th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, iCBBE 2010

Conference

Conference4th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, iCBBE 2010
Country/TerritoryChina
CityChengdu
Period18/06/1020/06/10

Keywords

  • Conditional random fields
  • Maximum entropy markov model
  • Protein dihedral angle
  • Structure prediction

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