Biology – Quantitative Biology – Quantitative Methods
Scientific paper
2010-01-18
Biology
Quantitative Biology
Quantitative Methods
8 pages, 5 figures
Scientific paper
Motivation: Protein sequence world is discrete as 20 amino acids (AA) while its structure world is continuous, though can be discretized into structural alphabets (SA). In order to reveal the relationship between sequence and structure, it is interesting to consider both AA and SA in a joint space. However, such space has too many parameters, so the reduction of AA is necessary to bring down the parameter numbers. Result: We've developed a simple but effective approach called entropic clustering based on selecting the best mutual information between a given reduction of AAs and SAs. The optimized reduction of AA into two groups leads to hydrophobic and hydrophilic. Combined with our SA, namely conformational letter (CL) of 17 alphabets, we get a joint alphabet called hydropathy conformational letter (hp-CL). A joint substitution matrix with (17*2)*(17*2) indices is derived from FSSP. Moreover, we check the three coding systems, say AA, CL and hp-CL against a large database consisting proteins from family to fold, with their performance on the TopK accuracy of both similar fragment pair (SFP) and the neighbor of aligned fragment pair (AFP). The TopK selection is according to the score calculated by the coding system's substitution matrix. Finally, embedding hp-CL in a pairwise alignment algorithm, say CLeFAPS, to replace the original CL, will get an improvement on the HOMSTRAD benchmark.
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