Profile-based string kernels for remote homology detection and motif extraction

R Kuang, E Ie, K Wang, K Wang, M Siddiqi… - … of bioinformatics and …, 2005 - World Scientific
We introduce novel profile-based string kernels for use with support vector machines (SVMs)
for the problems of protein classification and remote homology detection. These kernels use …

Profile-based direct kernels for remote homology detection and fold recognition

H Rangwala, G Karypis - Bioinformatics, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: Protein remote homology detection is a central problem in computational
biology. Supervised learning algorithms based on support vector machines are currently …

Protein homology detection using string alignment kernels

H Saigo, JP Vert, N Ueda, T Akutsu - Bioinformatics, 2004 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: Remote homology detection between protein sequences is a central problem in
computational biology. Discriminative methods involving support vector machines (SVMs) …

Efficient remote homology detection using local structure

Y Hou, W Hsu, ML Lee, C Bystroff - Bioinformatics, 2003 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: The function of an unknown biological sequence can often be accurately inferred
if we are able to map this unknown sequence to its corresponding homologous family. At …

Combining pairwise sequence similarity and support vector machines for remote protein homology detection

L Liao, WS Noble - Proceedings of the sixth annual international …, 2002 - dl.acm.org
One key element in understanding the molecular machinery of the cell is to understand the
meaning, or function, of each protein encoded in the genome. A very successful means of …

The spectrum kernel: A string kernel for SVM protein classification

C Leslie, E Eskin, WS Noble - Biocomputing 2002, 2001 - World Scientific
We introduce a new sequence-similarity kernel, the spectrum kernel, for use with support
vector machines (SVMs) in a discriminative approach to the protein classification problem …

Remote homolog detection using local sequence–structure correlations

Y Hou, W Hsu, ML Lee, C Bystroff - … : Structure, Function, and …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Remote homology detection refers to the detection of structural homology in proteins when
there is little or no sequence similarity. In this article, we present a remote homolog detection …

Fast model-based protein homology detection without alignment

S Hochreiter, M Heusel, K Obermayer - Bioinformatics, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: As more genomes are sequenced, the demand for fast gene classification
techniques is increasing. To analyze a newly sequenced genome, first the genes are …

[PDF][PDF] Fast string kernels using inexact matching for protein sequences.

C Leslie, R Kuang, K Bennett - Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2004 - jmlr.org
We describe several families of k-mer based string kernels related to the recently presented
mismatch kernel and designed for use with support vector machines (SVMs) for …

A discriminative method for protein remote homology detection and fold recognition combining Top-n-grams and latent semantic analysis

B Liu, X Wang, L Lin, Q Dong, X Wang - BMC bioinformatics, 2008 - Springer
Background Protein remote homology detection and fold recognition are central problems in
bioinformatics. Currently, discriminative methods based on support vector machine (SVM) …