Abstract
Contact map, which is important to understand and reconstruct protein's three-dimensional (3D) structure, may be helpful to solve the protein's 3D structure. This paper presents a novel approach to predict the contact map using Radial Basis Function Neural Network (RBFNN) optimised by Conformational Energy Function (CEF) based on chemico-physical knowledge of amino acids. Finally, the results are trimmed by Short-Range Contact Function (SRCF). Consequently, it can be found that our proposed method is better than the existing methods such as PROFcon and the PE-based method. Particularly, this method can accurately predict 35% of contacts at a distance cutoff of 8 Å.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 123-136 |
Number of pages | 14 |
Journal | International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications |
Volume | 4 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - May 2008 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Bioinformatics
- CEF
- Conformational energy function
- Contact map
- PCA
- Principal component analysis
- RBFNN
- Radial basis function neural network
- SRCF
- Short-range contact function
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Biomedical Engineering
- Health Informatics
- Clinical Biochemistry
- Health Information Management