TXTpred: A New Method for Protein Secondary Structure Prediction

Carnegie MellonSchool of Computer Science Biological Language Modeling

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TXTpred: A New Method for Protein Secondary Structure Prediction

Yan Liu, Jaime Carbonell, Judith Klein- SeetharamanSchool of Computer ScienceCarnegie Mellon University

May 14, 2003



Roadmap• Overview on secondary structure

prediction• Description of TXTpred method• Experiment results and analysis• Discussion and further work



Secondary Structure of a Protein Sequence

• Dictionary of Secondary Structure Prediction annotates each residue with its structure (DSSP)– based on hydrogen bonding patterns

and geometrical constraints • 7 DSSP labels for PSS:

– Helix types: H G (alpha-helix 3/10 helix)– Sheet types: B E (isolated beta-bridge

strand)– Coil types: T _ S (Coil)



Secondary Structure of a Protein Sequence

• Accuracy Limit ~ 88%



Task Definition• Given a protein sequence:

– APAFSVSPASGA• Predict its secondary structure

sequence:– CCEEEEECCCCC– Focus on soluble proteins, not on

membrane protein



Overview of Previous Work -1

• 1st-generation method – Calculate propensities for each amino acid

• E.g. Chou-Fasman method (Chou & Fasman, 1974)• 2nd-generation method

– “Window” concept• APAFSVSPAS (window size = 7)

– Calculate propensities for segments of 3-51 amino acids

• E.g. GOR method (Garnier et al, 1978)



Overview of Previous Work -2

• 3rd-generation method– Use evolutional information multiple

sequence alignment• p-Value cut-off = 10-2 • PHD: Neural Network & Sequence features only (Rost &

Sander, 1993)• DSC: LDA & Biological features: GOR, hydrophobicity

etc. (King & Sternberg, 1996)– Later Refinement

• Apply divergent sequence alignment: e.g. PROF (Ouali & King, 2000)

• Combine results of different system: e.g. Jpred (Cuff & Barton, 1999)

• Bayesian Segmentation (Schmidler et al, 1999)



Summary of Performance

Method Name Performance (Q3)Chou-Fasman ~ 50%

GOR ~ 56%PHD ~ 71%DSC ~ 70%



Disadvantage of Previous Work

• Most are “black box” predictors– Weak biological meanings

• Little focus on long-range interaction– Mostly focused on local information

• Performance is asymptotically bounded



Roadmap• Overview on secondary structure

prediction• Description of TXTpred method• Experiment results and analysis• Discussion and further work



TXTpred• Basic idea:

– Build meaningful biological vocabulary – Apply language technique for prediction

• Major challenge:– How to build the vocabulary?

• Context-free N-gram of amino acids inside the window

– Sq: APAFSVSPAS (window = 7)– N-gram: P, A, ..,P, PA, AF, ..SP, PAF, AFS,..,VSP



Biological Vocabulary• Context sensitive vocabulary

– Analogy• Same word might have different meanings:

e.g. “bank”• Same amino acid might have different

properties: APAFSVSPAS– Encode context semantics into the N-

gram• Record the position information in the N-gram• Example: APAFSVSPAS (window size = 7)

– Words: P-3, A-2, F-1, S+0, V+1, S+1, P+1



Text Classification• Text classification

– Analogy• The topic of a document is expressed by

the words of the document• The structure of one residue can be

inferred from the biological words nearby– High Accuracy– Text Classification Technique

• Doc to Vectors:• Classifiers: Support Vector Machines

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TXTpred MethodSettings:

Window = 17One-gram, two-gramFeature Num = 3000



Evaluation Measure• Q3 (accuracy)

• Precision, Recall

• Segment Overlap quantity (SOV)

• Matthew’s Correlation coefficients

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Experimental Results• RS126 datasets

• CB513 datasets



Biological language Properties

Power Law?

One-gram Two-gram

Term Frequency = f(Rank)



Sequence Analysis -1Feature Selection

• Top ten Discriminating features for Helix

• Verification by Chou-Fasman parameters– Helix favors A, E, M,

L, K (top 5 amino acids)

– disfavors P (top 1 amino acid)




• Top ten Discriminating features for Sheet

• Verification by Chou-Fasman parameters– Sheets favors V, I,

Y, F, W (top 5 amino acids)

– Disfavors D, E (top 2 amino acids)




• Top ten Discriminating features for Coil

• Verification by Chou-Fasman parameters– Coil favors N, P, G,

D, S (top 5 amino acids)

– Disfavors V, I, L (top 3 amino acids)



Sequence Analysis –2Word Correlation

• Word correlation • Some words have strong correlation and

co-occur frequently • Technique: Singular Vector

Decomposition• Examples from texts

• Phrases: {president, Bush}• Semantic correlated: {Olympic, sports}



Sequence Analysis – 2 Word Correlation

• Top ten correlated word pairs



Sequence Analysis – 2 Word Correlation

Regular Expression

ProteinSequence

Secondary

Structure

Conjecture

CPXXAI Sq1:ECPNEAIMSq2:ECPAEAIKSq3:GCPI PAIL

L1: HCCCCCECL2: HCCCCCEEL3: CCCCCEEE

Coil connected to Sheet

PGH Sq1: TFPGHSASq2: DCPGHAD

L1: CCCCCCCL2: ECCCHHH

Coil

EEL Sq1: DDEELLESq2: WSEELNS

L1:CCHHHHHL2:CCHHHHH

Helix



Conclusion• TXTpred Summary

– Context sensitive biological vocabulary– Novel application of text classification to

secondary structure prediction– Comparable performance for secondary

structure prediction– Analysis provides reasonable biological

meanings and structure indicators



Future Work• Deeper study on extracting more

meaningful biological vocabulary• Further discovery of new features,

such as torsion angle and free energy

• Advanced learning models to consider long-range interactions

• Conditional random fields, Maximum entropy markov model



Acknowledgement

• Vanathi Gopalakrishnan, Upitt

• Ivet Barhar, UPitt



Motivation for 2-D prediction

• Basis for three-dimensional structure prediction

• Improving other sequence and structure analysis– Sequence alignment– Threading and homologous modeling– Experimental data– Protein design

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