Journal of Physical Chemistry & Biophysics
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel

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• Research Article   
  Specific Peptides Predict Protein Classification
  Author(s): David Horn* and Uri Weingart
  
  The methodology of Specific Peptides (SP) has been introduced within the context of enzymes. It is based on unsupervised Machine Learning (ML) tool for motif extraction, followed by supervised annotation of motifs. In the case of enzymes, the classifier is the Enzyme Classification (EC) number. Here we restudy this problem, and demonstrate that we reach precision of 0.965 and recall of 0.891 on presently available protein sequences. Moreover, applying our methodology to query proteins is much faster than deep learning methods used for the same purpose. We also apply this method to two other protein groups, G Protein Coupling Receptors (GPCR) and zinc finger proteins, find their corresponding SPs, and provide the code for searching any protein sequence for its classification under any such family. Some proteins which have annotations belonging to two of the three systems are .. View More»
  DOI: 10.35248/2161-0398.22.12.338

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