title: Prediction of antimicrobial peptides based on sequence alignment and support vector machine-pairwise algorithm utilizing LZ-complexity.
abstract: This study concerns an attempt to establish a new method for predicting antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) which are important to the immune system. Recently, researchers are interested in designing alternative drugs based on AMPs because they have found that a large number of bacterial strains have become resistant to available antibiotics. However, researchers have encountered obstacles in the AMPs designing process as experiments to extract AMPs from protein sequences are costly and require a long set-up time. Therefore, a computational tool for AMPs prediction is needed to resolve this problem. In this study, an integrated algorithm is newly introduced to predict AMPs by integrating sequence alignment and support vector machine- (SVM-) LZ complexity pairwise algorithm. It was observed that, when all sequences in the training set are used, the sensitivity of the proposed algorithm is 95.28% in jackknife test and 87.59% in independent test, while the sensitivity obtained for jackknife test and independent test is 88.74% and 78.70%, respectively, when only the sequences that has less than 70% similarity are used. Applying the proposed algorithm may allow researchers to effectively predict AMPs from unknown protein peptide sequences with higher sensitivity.
authors: School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 14300 Nibong Tebal, Seberang Perai Selatan, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia.
authors: Xin Yi
authors: 0000-0002-7085-5675
authors: XY
authors: Ng
authors: Intelligent Biometric Group, School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, USM Engineering Campus, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 14300 Nibong Tebal, Seberang Perai Selatan, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia.
authors: Bakhtiar Affendi
authors: 0000-0002-0917-3886
authors: BA
authors: Rosdi
authors: School of Pharmacy, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 Minden, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia.
authors: Shahriza
authors: S
authors: Shahrudin
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D000890:Anti-Infective Agents / Q000494:pharmacology*; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods; D030562:Databases, Protein; D015195:Drug Design; D010455:Peptides / Q000494:pharmacology*; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D016415:Sequence Alignment / Q000379:methods; D020539:Sequence Analysis, Protein / Q000379:methods; D060388:Support Vector Machine
chemical_list: D000890:Anti-Infective Agents; D010455:Peptides