Feature selection and granular SVM classification for protein arginine methylation identification

Authors:
Zejin Ding;Yan-Qing Zhang;Yujun George Zheng
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Science, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA;Department of Computer Science, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA;Department of Chemistry, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
Venue:
SMC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
Year:
2009

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Abstract

Protein methylation modification has been discovered for half a century but still far less been studied than other modifications. Computational analysis is recently introduced to discover other unknown methylation sites based on few known ones. To effectively predict possible methylation, sophisticated classification strategy should be well devised. In this paper, we first extracted informative features from methylated fragments in many protein sequences, including the physicochemical properties, secondary structure information, evolutionary profiles, and solvent accessibility of surrounding residues. Then, an efficient feature selection method (mRMR) is applied to eliminate redundant features but keep important ones. Since methylated residues are far less than non-methylated, the collected data is relatively imbalanced. Thus, we propose to use the granular support vector machine (GSVM) which is specially designed for imbalanced classification problems. A 7-fold cross validation shows that our strategy generates comparable predication accuracy with many current methods or even better. Meanwhile, our method provides insights to identify the underlying mechanisms of protein methylation.