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Dimensionality reduction in patch-signature based protein structure matching.

Huang, Zi; Zhou, Xiaofang; Song, Dawei; Bruza, Peter

Authors

Zi Huang

Xiaofang Zhou

Dawei Song

Peter Bruza



Contributors

Gillian Dobbie
Editor

James Bailey
Editor

Abstract

Searching bio-chemical structures is becoming an important application domain of information re- trieval. This paper introduces a protein structure matching problem and formulates it as an infor- mation retrieval problem. We first present a novel vector representation for protein structures, in which a protein structural region, formed by the vectors within the region, is defined as a patch and indexed by its patch signature. For a k-sized patch, its patch signature consists of 7k ¡ 10 inter-atom distances which uniquely determine the patch's spatial struc- ture. A patch matching function is then defined. As structures for proteins are large and complex, it is computationally expensive to identify possible matching patches for a given protein against a large protein database. We propose to apply dimensional- ity reduction to the patch signatures and show how the two problems are adapted to fit each other. The Locality Preservation Projection (LPP) and Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) are chosen and tested for this purpose. Experimental results show that the dimensionality reduction improves the searching speed while maintaining acceptable precision and recall. From a more general point of view, this paper demonstrates that information retrieval techniques can play a crucial role in solving this biologically critical but computationally expensive problem.

Citation

HUANG, Z., ZHOU, X., SONG, D. and BRUZA, P. 2006. Dimensionality reduction in patch-signature based protein structure matching. In: Dobbie, G. and Bailey, J. (eds.) Proceedings of the 17th Australasian database conference (ADC'06), 16-19 January 2006, Hobart, Australia. Darlinghurst: Australian Computer Society [online], pages 89-97. Available from: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1151746

Conference Name 17th Australasian database conference (ADC'06)
Conference Location Hobart, Australia
Start Date Jan 16, 2006
End Date Jan 19, 2006
Acceptance Date Jan 31, 2006
Online Publication Date Jan 31, 2006
Publication Date Dec 31, 2006
Deposit Date Sep 7, 2009
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Publisher Australian Computer Society Inc
Pages 89-97
ISBN 1920682317
Keywords Protein structure matching; Similarity measure; Dimensionality reduction
Public URL http://hdl.handle.net/10059/416
Publisher URL https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1151746

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