Abstract
The subcellular localization of proteins is closely related to their functions. In this work, we propose a novel approach based on localization motifs to improve the accuracy of predicting subcellular localization of Gram-positive bacterial proteins. Our approach performed well on a five-fold cross validation with an overall success rate of 89.5%. Besides, the overall success rate of an independent testing dataset was 97.7%. Moreover, our approach was tested using a new experimentally-determined set of Gram-positive bacteria proteins and achieved an overall success rate of 96.3%.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 135-140 |
| Journal | Journal of Theoretical Biology |
| Volume | 308 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2012 Sept 7 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The authors would like to thank financial support by the National Natural Science Foundation of China ( 20675057 , 20705024 ).
Free keywords
- Motif finding
- Position-specific frequencies encoding
- Subcellular location prediction
- Support vector machine (SVM)