Data-Driven Discovery of Protein Function Classifiers: Decision Trees Based on Meme Motifs Outperform Prosite Patterns and Profiles on Peptidase Families

Xiangyun Wang, Diane Schroeder, Drena Dobbs, Vasant Honavar

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Abstract

This paper describes an approach to data-driven discovery of decision trees or rules for assigning protein sequences to functional families using sequence motifs. This method is able to capture regularities that can be described in terms of presence or absence of arbitrary combinations of motifs. A training set of peptidase sequences labeled with the corresponding MEROPS functional families or clans is used to automatically construct decision trees that capture regularities that are sufficient to assign the sequences to their respective functional families. The performance of the resulting decision tree classifiers is then evaluated on an independent test set. We compared the rules constructed using motifs generated by a multiple sequence alignment based motif discovery tool (MEME) with rules constructed using expert annotated PROSITE motifs (patterns and profiles). Our results indicate that the former provide a potentially powerful high throughput technique for constructing protein function classifiers when adequate training data are available. Examination of the generated rules in the case of a Caspase (C14) family suggests that the proposed technique may be able to identify combinations of sequence motifs that characterize functionally significant 3-dimensional structural features of proteins.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 6th Joint Conference on Information Sciences, JCIS 2002
EditorsJ.H. Caulfield, S.H. Chen, H.D. Cheng, R. Duro, J.H. Caufield, S.H. Chen, H.D. Cheng, R. Duro, V. Honavar
Pages1193-1199
Number of pages7
StatePublished - 2002
EventProceedings of the 6th Joint Conference on Information Sciences, JCIS 2002 - Research Triange Park, NC, United States
Duration: Mar 8 2002Mar 13 2002

Publication series

NameProceedings of the Joint Conference on Information Sciences
Volume6

Other

OtherProceedings of the 6th Joint Conference on Information Sciences, JCIS 2002
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityResearch Triange Park, NC
Period3/8/023/13/02

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Computer Science

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