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Published on: April 26, 2013
Alignment-free prediction of mycobacterial DNA promoters based on pseudo-folding lattice network or star-graph
Alcides Perez-Bello1, Cristian Robert Munteanu, Florencio M Ubeira
1Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela 15782, Spain. alcidopb@gmail.com
Abstract:
The importance of the promoter sequences in the function regulation of several important mycobacterial pathogens creates the necessity to design simple and fast theoretical models that can predict them. This work proposes two DNA promoter QSAR models based on pseudo-folding lattice network (LN) and star-graphs (SG) topological indices. In addition, a comparative study with the previous RNA electrostatic parameters of thermodynamically-driven secondary structure folding representations has been carried out. The best model of this work was obtained with only two LN stochastic electrostatic potentials and it is characterized by accuracy, selectivity and specificity of 90.87%, 82.96% and 92.95%, respectively. In addition, we pointed out the SG result dependence on the DNA sequence codification and we proposed a QSAR model based on codons and only three SG spectral moments.
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