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SNBRFinder: A Sequence-Based Hybrid Algorithm for Enhanced Prediction of Nucleic Acid-Binding Residues

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  • Xiaoxia Yang
  • Jia Wang
  • Jun Sun
  • Rong Liu

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Protein-nucleic acid interactions are central to various fundamental biological processes. Automated methods capable of reliably identifying DNA- and RNA-binding residues in protein sequence are assuming ever-increasing importance. The majority of current algorithms rely on feature-based prediction, but their accuracy remains to be further improved. Here we propose a sequence-based hybrid algorithm SNBRFinder (Sequence-based Nucleic acid-Binding Residue Finder) by merging a feature predictor SNBRFinderF and a template predictor SNBRFinderT. SNBRFinderF was established using the support vector machine whose inputs include sequence profile and other complementary sequence descriptors, while SNBRFinderT was implemented with the sequence alignment algorithm based on profile hidden Markov models to capture the weakly homologous template of query sequence. Experimental results show that SNBRFinderF was clearly superior to the commonly used sequence profile-based predictor and SNBRFinderT can achieve comparable performance to the structure-based template methods. Leveraging the complementary relationship between these two predictors, SNBRFinder reasonably improved the performance of both DNA- and RNA-binding residue predictions. More importantly, the sequence-based hybrid prediction reached competitive performance relative to our previous structure-based counterpart. Our extensive and stringent comparisons show that SNBRFinder has obvious advantages over the existing sequence-based prediction algorithms. The value of our algorithm is highlighted by establishing an easy-to-use web server that is freely accessible at http://ibi.hzau.edu.cn/SNBRFinder.

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  • Xiaoxia Yang & Jia Wang & Jun Sun & Rong Liu, 2015. "SNBRFinder: A Sequence-Based Hybrid Algorithm for Enhanced Prediction of Nucleic Acid-Binding Residues," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 10(7), pages 1-23, July.
  • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0133260
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0133260
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    1. Jun Sun & Jiale Qu & Cai Zhao & Xinyao Zhang & Xinyu Liu & Jia Wang & Chao Wei & Xinyi Liu & Mulan Wang & Pengguihang Zeng & Xiuxiao Tang & Xiaoru Ling & Li Qing & Shaoshuai Jiang & Jiahao Chen & Tara, 2024. "Precise prediction of phase-separation key residues by machine learning," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 15(1), pages 1-18, December.

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