iAMP-2L: A two-level multi-label classifier for identifying antimicrobial peptides and their functional types

Xiao, X. and Wang, P. and Lin, W-Z. and et al, . (2013) iAMP-2L: A two-level multi-label classifier for identifying antimicrobial peptides and their functional types. Analytical Biochemistry, 436 (2). pp. 168-177.

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Abstract

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), also called host defense peptides, are an evolutionarily conserved component of the innate immune response and are found among all classes of life. According to their special functions, AMPs are generally classified into ten categories: Antibacterial Peptides, Anticancer/tumor Peptides, Antifungal Peptides, Anti-HIV Peptides, Antiviral Peptides, Antiparasital Peptides, Anti-protist Peptides, AMPs with Chemotactic Activity, Insecticidal Peptides, and Spermicidal Peptides. Given a query peptide, how can we identify whether it is an AMP or non-AMP? If it is, can we identify which functional type or types it belong to? Particularly, how can we deal with the multi-type problem since an AMP may belong to two or more functional types? To address these problems, which are obviously very important to both basic research and drug development, a multi-label classifier was developed based on the pseudo amino acid composition (PseAAC) and fuzzy K-nearest neighbor (FKNN) algorithm, where the components of PseAAC were featured by incorporating five physicochemical properties. The novel classifier is called iAMP-2L, where “2L” means that it is a 2-level predictor. The 1st-level is to answer the 1st question above, while the 2nd-level is to answer the 2nd and 3rd questions that are beyond the reach of any existing methods in this area. For the conveniences of users, a user-friendly web-server for iAMP-2L was established at http://www.jci-bioinfo.cn/iAMP-2L.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Antimicrobial peptide; Pseudo amino acid composition; Physicochemical properties; Fuzzy K-nearest neighbor; Multi-label classification
Author Affiliation: Computer Department, Jing-De-Zhen Ceramic Institute, Jing-De-Zhen 333403, China
Subjects: Plant Physiology and Biochemistry > Biochemistry
Divisions: UNSPECIFIED
Depositing User: Mr Siva Shankar
Date Deposited: 03 Jul 2013 08:48
Last Modified: 03 Jul 2013 08:48
Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ab.2013.01.019
URI: http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/10837

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