Estimation of protein secondary structure from FTIR spectra using neural networks

Severcan M., Severcan F., Haris P.

JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR STRUCTURE, vol.565, pp.383-387, 2001 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 565
  • Publication Date: 2001
  • Doi Number: 10.1016/s0022-2860(01)00505-1
  • Journal Name: JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR STRUCTURE
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.383-387
  • Keywords: protein, secondary structure prediction, neural networks, FTIR, spectroscopy
  • Middle East Technical University Affiliated: No

Abstract

Secondary structure of proteins have been predicted using neural networks (NN) from their Fourier transform infrared spectra. Leave-one-out approach has been used to demonstrate the applicability of the method. A form of cross-validation is used to train NN to prevent the overfitting problem. Multiple neural network outputs are averaged to reduce the variance of predictions. The networks realized have been tested and rms errors of 7.7% for alpha -helix, 6.4% for beta -sheet and 4.8% for turns have been achieved. These results indicate that the methodology introduced is effective and estimation accuracies are in some cases better than those previously reported in the literature. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.