Adaptive BLASTing through the Sequence Dataspace: Theories on Protein Sequence Embedding

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2009-11-03

arxiv.org/abs/0911.0650v1

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Quantitative Methods

21 pages, 10 figures

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We theorize that phylogenetic profiles provide a quantitative method that can relate the structural and functional properties of proteins, as well as their evolutionary relationships. A key feature of phylogenetic profiles is the interoperable data format (e.g. alignment information, physiochemical information, genomic information, etc). Indeed, we have previously demonstrated Position Specific Scoring Matrices (PSSMs) are an informative M-dimension which can be scored from quantitative measure of embedded or unmodified sequence alignments. Moreover, the information obtained from these alignments is informative, even in the twilight zone of sequence similarity (<25% identity)(1-5). Although powerful, our previous embedding strategy suffered from contaminating alignments(embedded AND unmodified) and computational expense. Herein, we describe the logic and algorithmic process for a heuristic embedding strategy (Adaptive GDDA-BLAST, Ada-BLAST). Ada-BLAST on average up to ~19-fold faster and has similar sensitivity to our previous method. Further, we provide data demonstrating the benefits of embedded alignment measurements for isolating secondary structural elements and the classifying transmembrane-domain structure/function. We theorize that sequence-embedding is one of multiple ways that low-identity alignments can be measured and incorporated into high-performance PSSM-based phylogenetic profiles.

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