RESEARCH ARTICLE
Protein Secondary Structure Prediction Using RT-RICO: A Rule-Based Approach
Leong Lee*, 1, Jennifer L. Leopold1, Cyriac Kandoth1, Ronald L. Frank2
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2010Volume: 4
First Page: 17
Last Page: 30
Publisher ID: TOBIOIJ-4-17
DOI: 10.2174/1875036201004010017
Article History:
Received Date: 25/04/2010Revision Received Date: 22/06/2010
Acceptance Date: 25/06/2010
Electronic publication date: 09/08/2010
Collection year: 2010
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Protein structure prediction has always been an important research area in biochemistry. In particular, the prediction of protein secondary structure has been a well-studied research topic. The experimental methods currently used to determine protein structure are accurate, yet costly both in terms of equipment and time. Despite the recent breakthrough of combining multiple sequence alignment information and artificial intelligence algorithms to predict protein secondary structure, the Q3 accuracy of various computational prediction methods rarely has exceeded 75%. In this paper, a newly developed rule-based data-mining approach called RT-RICO (Relaxed Threshold Rule Induction from Coverings) is presented. This method identifies dependencies between amino acids in a protein sequence and generates rules that can be used to predict secondary structure. RT-RICO achieved a Q3 score of 81.75% on the standard test dataset RS126 and a Q3 score of 79.19% on the standard test dataset CB396, an improvement over comparable computational methods.
