title: PseDNA-Pro: DNA-Binding Protein Identification by Combining Chou's PseAAC and Physicochemical Distance Transformation.
abstract: Identification of DNA-binding proteins is an important problem in biomedical research as DNA-binding proteins are crucial for various cellular processes. Currently, the machine learning methods achieve the-state-of-the-art performance with different features. A key step to improve the performance of these methods is to find a suitable representation of proteins. In this study, we proposed a feature vector composed of three kinds of sequence-based features, including overall amino acid composition, pseudo amino acid composition (PseAAC) proposed by Chou and physicochemical distance transformation. These features not only consider the sequence composition of proteins, but also incorporate the sequence-order information of amino acids in proteins. The feature vectors were fed into Support Vector Machine (SVM) for DNA-binding protein identification. The proposed method is called PseDNA-Pro. Experiments on stringent benchmark datasets and independent test datasets by using the Jackknife test showed that PseDNA-Pro can achieve an accuracy of higher than 80 %, outperforming several state-of-the-art methods, including DNAbinder, DNA-Prot, and iDNA-Prot. These results indicate that the combination of various features for DNA-binding protein prediction is a suitable approach, and the sequence-order information among residues in proteins is relative for discrimination. For practical applications, a web-server of PseDNA-Pro was established, which is available from http://bioinformatics.hitsz.edu.cn/PseDNA-Pro/.
authors.affiliation: School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen, Guangdong, P.R. China. bliu@insun.hit.edu.cn.|Key Laboratory of Network Oriented Intelligent Computation, Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen, Guangdong, P.R. China. bliu@insun.hit.edu.cn.|Shanghai Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing, Shanghai, P.R. China. bliu@insun.hit.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Bin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen, Guangdong, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Jinghao
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.affiliation: School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen, Guangdong, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Shixi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fan
authors.affiliation: School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen, Guangdong, P.R. China.|Key Laboratory of Network Oriented Intelligent Computation, Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen, Guangdong, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Ruifeng
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.affiliation: School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen, Guangdong, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Jiyun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.affiliation: School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen, Guangdong, P.R. China.|Key Laboratory of Network Oriented Intelligent Computation, Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen, Guangdong, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Xiaolong
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D030562:Databases, Protein; D006801:Humans; D020539:Sequence Analysis, Protein / Q000379:methods*; D060388:Support Vector Machine
chemical_list: D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins
keywords: DNA-binding protein; Pseudo amino acid composition; Support vector machine