A Bayesian approach to protein model quality assessment

  • Authors:
  • Hetunandan Kamisetty;Christopher J. Langmead

  • Affiliations:
  • Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA;Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

  • Venue:
  • ICML '09 Proceedings of the 26th Annual International Conference on Machine Learning
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Given multiple possible models b1, b2, ... bn for a protein structure, a common sub-task in in-silico Protein Structure Prediction is ranking these models according to their quality. Extant approaches use MLE estimates of parameters ri to obtain point estimates of the Model Quality. We describe a Bayesian alternative to assessing the quality of these models that builds an MRF over the parameters of each model and performs approximate inference to integrate over them. Hyperparameters w are learnt by optimizing a list-wise loss function over training data. Our results indicate that our Bayesian approach can significantly outperform MLE estimates and that optimizing the hyper-parameters can further improve results.