Title:Bioluminescent Proteins Prediction with Voting Strategy
Volume: 16
Issue: 2
Author(s): Shulin Zhao, Ying Ju, Xiucai Ye, Jun Zhang*Shuguang Han
Affiliation:
- Rehabilitation Department, Heilongjiang Province Land Reclamation Headquarters General Hospital, Harbin,China
Keywords:
Bioluminescent proteins, prediction, feature extraction, voting algorithm, base classifiers, vote counting rules.
Abstract:
Background: Bioluminescence is a unique and significant phenomenon in nature.
Bioluminescence is important for the lifecycle of some organisms and is valuable in biomedical
research, including for gene expression analysis and bioluminescence imaging technology. In recent
years, researchers have identified a number of methods for predicting bioluminescent proteins
(BLPs), which have increased in accuracy, but could be further improved.
Methods: In this study, a new bioluminescent proteins prediction method, based on a voting
algorithm, is proposed. Four methods of feature extraction based on the amino acid sequence were
used. 314 dimensional features in total were extracted from amino acid composition,
physicochemical properties and k-spacer amino acid pair composition. In order to obtain the highest
MCC value to establish the optimal prediction model, a voting algorithm was then used to build the
model. To create the best performing model, the selection of base classifiers and vote counting rules
are discussed.
Results and Conclusion: The proposed model achieved 93.4% accuracy, 93.4% sensitivity and
91.7% specificity in the test set, which was better than any other method. A previous prediction of
bioluminescent proteins in three lineages was also improved using the model building method,
resulting in greatly improved accuracy.