title: Prediction of protein structural class using a complexity-based distance measure.
abstract: Knowledge of structural class plays an important role in understanding protein folding patterns. So it is necessary to develop effective and reliable computational methods for prediction of protein structural class. To this end, we present a new method called NN-CDM, a nearest neighbor classifier with a complexity-based distance measure. Instead of extracting features from protein sequences as done previously, distance between each pair of protein sequences is directly evaluated by a complexity measure of symbol sequences. Then the nearest neighbor classifier is adopted as the predictive engine. To verify the performance of this method, jackknife cross-validation tests are performed on several benchmark datasets. Results show that our approach achieves a high prediction accuracy over some classical methods.
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Mathematics, Dalian University of Technology, 116024 Dalian, China. mathltg@yahoo.com.cn
authors.forename: Taigang
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Xiaoqi
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zheng
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wang