PECB: prediction of enzyme catalytic residues based on Naive Bayes classification

  • Authors:
  • Kunpeng Zhang;Yun Xu;Guoliang Chen

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230027, China.;Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230027, China/ Anhui Province –/ MOST Co-/Key, Laboratory of High Performance Co ...;Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230027, China/ Anhui Province –/ MOST Co-/Key, Laboratory of High Performance Co ...

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

In the post-genome era, huge numbers of protein structuresaccumulate, but little is known about their function. It is timeconsuming and labour intensive to investigate them, e.g., enzymecatalytic properties, through in vivo or in vitro work. So insilico predictions could be a promising strategy to greatly shrinkthe list of potential targets. This work incorporated bothstructural and physico-chemical information into a Naive Bayesclassification system, and gained much better performance. Theten-fold cross validation results of this method could reach 88.6%of sensitivity and 93.7% of specificity. The improvement ofprediction accuracy is detailed in this paper. The PECB is alsoapplied to predict other important sites.