Protein sequence classification using feature hashing

Cornelia Caragea, Adrian Silvescu, Prasenjit Mitra

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Abstract

Recent advances in next-generation sequencing technologies have resulted in an exponential increase in protein sequence data. The k-gram representation, used for protein sequence classification, usually results in prohibitively high dimensional input spaces, for large values of k. Applying data mining algorithms to these input spaces may be intractable due to the large number of dimensions. Hence, using dimensionality reduction techniques can be crucial for the performance and the complexity of the learning algorithms. We study the applicability of feature hashing to protein sequence classification, where the original high-dimensional space is reduced by mapping features to hash keys, such that multiple features can be mapped (at random) to the same key, and aggregating their counts. We compare feature hashing with the bag of k-grams and feature selection approaches. Our results show that feature hashing is an effective approach to reducing dimensionality on protein sequence classification tasks.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2011 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2011
Pages538-543
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Event2011 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2011 - Atlanta, GA, United States
Duration: Nov 12 2011Nov 15 2011

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2011 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2011

Other

Other2011 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2011
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityAtlanta, GA
Period11/12/1111/15/11

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Health Informatics
  • Health Information Management

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