An ensemble of K-local hyperplanes for predicting protein-protein interactions

Bioinformatics. 2006 May 15;22(10):1207-10. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btl055. Epub 2006 Feb 15.

Abstract

Prediction of protein-protein interaction is a difficult and important problem in biology. In this paper, we propose a new method based on an ensemble of K-local hyperplane distance nearest neighbor (HKNN) classifiers, where each HKNN is trained using a different physicochemical property of the amino acids. Moreover, we propose a new encoding technique that combines the amino acid indices together with the 2-Grams amino acid composition. A fusion of HKNN classifiers combined with the 'Sum rule' enables us to obtain an improvement over other state-of-the-art methods. The approach is demonstrated by building a learning system based on experimentally validated protein-protein interactions in human gastric bacterium Helicobacter pylori and in Human dataset.

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms*
  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Binding Sites
  • Computer Simulation
  • Models, Biological*
  • Models, Chemical*
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Protein Binding
  • Protein Interaction Mapping / methods*
  • Sequence Alignment / methods*
  • Sequence Analysis, Protein / methods*