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Author Spotlight: A Computational Approach to Decipher Amino Acid Preferences in Multispecific Protein-Protein Interactions
Published on: January 26, 2024
Feature fusion-based food protein subcellular prediction for drug composition
Haewon Byeon1, Mohammad Shabaz2, Janjhyam Venkata Naga Ramesh3
1Department of AI and Software, Inje University, Gimhae 50834, Republic of Korea; Inje University Medical Big Data Research Center, Gimhae 50834, Republic of Korea.
Abstract:
The structure and function of dietary proteins, as well as their subcellular prediction, are critical for designing and developing new drug compositions and understanding the pathophysiology of certain diseases. As a remedy, we provide a subcellular localization method based on feature fusion and clustering for dietary proteins. Additionally, an enhanced PseAAC (Pseudo-amino acid composition) method is suggested, which builds upon the conventional PseAAC. The study initially builds a novel model of representing the food protein sequence by integrating autocorrelation, chi density, and improved PseAAC to better convey information about the food protein sequence. After that, the dimensionality of the fused feature vectors is reduced by using principal component analysis. With prediction accuracies of 99.24% in the Gram-positive dataset and 95.33% in the Gram-negative dataset, respectively, the experimental findings demonstrate the practicability and efficacy of the proposed approach. This paper is basically exploring pseudo-amino acid composition of not any clinical aspect but exploring a pharmaceutical aspect for drug repositioning.
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