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A Protocol for Computer-Based Protein Structure and Function Prediction
Published on: November 3, 2011
Protein secondary structure prediction with dihedral angles
Matthew J Wood1, Jonathan D Hirst
1School of Chemistry, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom.
Abstract:
We present DESTRUCT, a new method of protein secondary structure prediction, which achieves a three-state accuracy (Q3) of 79.4% in a cross-validated trial on a nonredundant set of 513 proteins. An iterative set of cascade-correlation neural networks is used to predict both secondary structure and psi dihedral angles, with predicted values enhancing the subsequent iteration. Predictive accuracies of 80.7% and 81.7% are achieved on the CASP4 and CASP5 targets, respectively. Our approach is significantly more accurate than other contemporary methods, due to feedback and a novel combination of structural representations.
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