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An improved deep learning model for hierarchical classification of protein families

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  • Pahalage Dhanushka Sandaruwan
  • Champi Thusangi Wannige

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Although genes carry information, proteins are the main role player in providing all the functionalities of a living organism. Massive amounts of different proteins involve in every function that occurs in a cell. These amino acid sequences can be hierarchically classified into a set of families and subfamilies depending on their evolutionary relatedness and similarities in their structure or function. Protein characterization to identify protein structure and function is done accurately using laboratory experiments. With the rapidly increasing huge amount of novel protein sequences, these experiments have become difficult to carry out since they are expensive, time-consuming, and laborious. Therefore, many computational classification methods are introduced to classify proteins and predict their functional properties. With the progress of the performance of the computational techniques, deep learning plays a key role in many areas. Novel deep learning models such as DeepFam, ProtCNN have been presented to classify proteins into their families recently. However, these deep learning models have been used to carry out the non-hierarchical classification of proteins. In this research, we propose a deep learning neural network model named DeepHiFam with high accuracy to classify proteins hierarchically into different levels simultaneously. The model achieved an accuracy of 98.38% for protein family classification and more than 80% accuracy for the classification of protein subfamilies and sub-subfamilies. Further, DeepHiFam performed well in the non-hierarchical classification of protein families and achieved an accuracy of 98.62% and 96.14% for the popular Pfam dataset and COG dataset respectively.

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  • Pahalage Dhanushka Sandaruwan & Champi Thusangi Wannige, 2021. "An improved deep learning model for hierarchical classification of protein families," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 16(10), pages 1-15, October.
  • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0258625
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0258625
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