Discriminating Transmembrane Proteins From Signal Peptides Using SVM-Fisher Approach

Authors:
Robel Y. Kahsay;Guang R. Gao;Li Liao
Affiliations:
University of Delaware;University of Delaware;University of Delaward
Venue:
ICMLA '05 Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications
Year:
2005

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Abstract

Most computational methods for transmembrane protein topology prediction rely on compositional bias of amino acids to locate those hydrophobic domains in transmembrane proteins. Because signal peptides also contain hydrophobic segments, these computational prediction methods often misidentify signal peptides as transmembrane proteins. Here, we present a new approach that combines the SVM-Fisher discrimination method and TMMOD - a hidden Markov model based predictor for transmembrane proteins. While TMMOD alone has already outperformed most existing methods in both identification and topology prediction, this new approach further improves the ability of TMMOD to discriminate between transmembrane proteins and signal peptide containing proteins, reducing mis-prediction of signal peptides by more than 30% in our test data.