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Remote homology detection: a motif based approach

Remote homology detection: a motif based approach Motivation: Remote homology detection is the problem of detecting homologyin cases of low sequence similarity. It is a hard computationalproblem with no approach that works well in all cases.Results: We present a method for detecting remote homology that is basedon the presence of discrete sequence motifs. The motif contentof a pair of sequences is used to define a similarity that isused as a kernel for a Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier.We test the method on two remote homology detection tasks:prediction of a previously unseen SCOP family and prediction ofan enzyme class given other enzymes that have a similar functionon other substrates. We find that it performs significantlybetter than an SVM method that uses BLAST or Smith-Watermansimilarity scores as features.Availability: The software is available from the authors upon request.Contact: [email protected]: remote homology, discrete sequence motifs, sequence similarity,Support Vector Machines, kernel methods*To whom correspondenceshould be addressed. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Bioinformatics Oxford University Press

Remote homology detection: a motif based approach

Bioinformatics , Volume 19 (suppl_1): 8 – Jul 3, 2003

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Oxford University Press
Copyright
© Oxford University Press 2003
ISSN
1367-4803
eISSN
1460-2059
DOI
10.1093/bioinformatics/btg1002
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Abstract

Motivation: Remote homology detection is the problem of detecting homologyin cases of low sequence similarity. It is a hard computationalproblem with no approach that works well in all cases.Results: We present a method for detecting remote homology that is basedon the presence of discrete sequence motifs. The motif contentof a pair of sequences is used to define a similarity that isused as a kernel for a Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier.We test the method on two remote homology detection tasks:prediction of a previously unseen SCOP family and prediction ofan enzyme class given other enzymes that have a similar functionon other substrates. We find that it performs significantlybetter than an SVM method that uses BLAST or Smith-Watermansimilarity scores as features.Availability: The software is available from the authors upon request.Contact: [email protected]: remote homology, discrete sequence motifs, sequence similarity,Support Vector Machines, kernel methods*To whom correspondenceshould be addressed.

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BioinformaticsOxford University Press

Published: Jul 3, 2003

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