A graphical model for predicting protein molecular function

Barbara E. Engelhardt, Michael I. Jordan, Steven E. Brenner

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Abstract

We present a simple statistical model of molecular function evolution to predict protein function. The model description encodes general knowledge of how molecular function evolves within a phylogenetic tree based on the proteins' sequence. Inputs are a phylogeny for a set of evolutionarily related protein sequences and any available function characterizations for those proteins. Posterior probabilities for each protein are used to predict the molecular function of that protein. We present results from applying our model to three protein families, and compare our prediction results on the extant proteins to other available protein function prediction methods. For the deaminase family, our method achieves 93.9% where related methods BLAST achieves 72.7%, GOtcha achieves 87.9%, and Orthostrapper achieves 72.7% in prediction accuracy.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationACM International Conference Proceeding Series - Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2006
Pages297-304
Number of pages8
DOIs
StatePublished - 2006
Event23rd International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2006 - Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Duration: Jun 25 2006Jun 29 2006

Publication series

NameACM International Conference Proceeding Series
Volume148

Other

Other23rd International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2006
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityPittsburgh, PA
Period6/25/066/29/06

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Software
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Computer Networks and Communications

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