Predicting protective bacterial antigens using random forest classifiers

Authors:
Yasser El-Manzalawy;Drena Dobbs;Vasant Honavar
Affiliations:
Iowa State University, Ames, IA and Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt;Iowa State University, Ames, IA;Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Venue:
Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedicine
Year:
2012

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Abstract

Identifying protective antigens from bacterial pathogens is important for developing vaccines. Most computational methods for predicting protein antigenicity rely on sequence similarity between a query protein sequence and at least one known antigen. Such methods limit our ability to predict novel antigens (i.e., antigens that are not homologous to any known antigen). Therefore, there is an urgent need for alignment-free computational methods for reliable prediction of protective antigens. We evaluated the discriminative power of four different amino acid composition derived feature representations using three classification methods (Logistic Regression, Support Vector Machine, and Random Forest) on a cross validation data set of 193 protective bacterial antigens and 193 non-antigenic bacterial proteins. Our results show that, with all four data representations, Random Forest classifiers consistently outperform other classifiers. We compared HRF50, one of the best performing Random Forest classifiers with VaxiJen and SignalP on independent test sets derived from the Chlamydia trachomatis and Bartonella proteomes. Our results show that our HRF50 predictor outperforms VaxiJen and is competitive with SignalP and ANTIGENpro in predicting protective antigens. We further showed that when we combine SignalP with HRF50, the resulting method, which we call BacGen, yields performance that is comparable to or better than that of ANTIGENpro in predicting antigens in bacterial sequences. We conclude that amino acid sequence composition derived features can be effectively used to design alignment-free methods for predicting protein antigenicity using Random Forest classifiers. BacGen is available as an online server at:http://ailab.cs.iastate.edu/bacgen/.