title: The prediction of the degree of exposure to solvent of amino acid residues via genetic programming.
abstract: In this paper I evolve programs that predict the degree of exposure to solvent (the buriedness) of amino acid residues given only the primary structure. I use genetic programming (Koza 1992; Koza 1994) to evolve programs that take as input the primary structure and that output the buriedness of each residue. I trained these programs on a set of 82 proteins from the Brookhaven Protein Data Bank (PDB) (Bernstein et al. 1977) and cross-validated them on a separate testing set of 40 proteins, also from the PDB. The best program evolved had a correlation of 0.434 between the predicted and observed buriednesses on the testing set.
authors.affiliation: Computer Science Department, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Handley
mesh_terms: D000596:Amino Acids / Q000032:analysis*; D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D017510:Protein Folding; D012984:Software
chemical_list: D000596:Amino Acids