A Probabilistic Peptide Machine for Predicting Hepatitis C Virus Protease Cleavage Sites

  • Authors:
  • Zheng Rong Yang

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. of Exeter, Exeter

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Although various machine learning approaches have been used for predicting protease cleavage sites, constructing a probabilistic model for these tasks is still challenging. This paper proposes a novel algorithm termed as a probabilistic peptide machine where estimating probability density functions and constructing a classifier for predicting protease cleavage sites are combined into one process. The simulation based on experimentally determined Hepatitis C virus (HCV) protease cleavage data has demonstrated the success of this new algorithm.