This article is part of the supplement: APBioNet – Fifth International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB2006)
Proceedings
Improving the performance of DomainDiscovery of protein domain boundary assignment using inter-domain linker index
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* Corresponding author: Abdur R Sikder sikder@it.uysd.edu.au
Advanced Networks Research Group, School of Information Technologies, J12, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
BMC Bioinformatics 2006, 7(Suppl 5):S6 doi:10.1186/1471-2105-7-S5-S6
Published: 18 December 2006Abstract
Background
Knowledge of protein domain boundaries is critical for the characterisation and understanding of protein function. The ability to identify domains without the knowledge of the structure – by using sequence information only – is an essential step in many types of protein analyses. In this present study, we demonstrate that the performance of DomainDiscovery is improved significantly by including the inter-domain linker index value for domain identification from sequence-based information. Improved DomainDiscovery uses a Support Vector Machine (SVM) approach and a unique training dataset built on the principle of consensus among experts in defining domains in protein structure. The SVM was trained using a PSSM (Position Specific Scoring Matrix), secondary structure, solvent accessibility information and inter-domain linker index to detect possible domain boundaries for a target sequence.
Results
Improved DomainDiscovery is compared with other methods by benchmarking against a structurally non-redundant dataset and also CASP5 targets. Improved DomainDiscovery achieves 70% accuracy for domain boundary identification in multi-domains proteins.
Conclusion
Improved DomainDiscovery compares favourably to the performance of other methods and excels in the identification of domain boundaries for multi-domain proteins as a result of introducing support vector machine with benchmark_2 dataset.