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ArticleMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2018

Deep Neural Network Based Predictions of Protein Interactions Using Primary Sequences.

Hang Li, Xiu-Jun Gong, Hua Yu, Chang Zhou

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Hang LiSchool of Computer Science and Technology, Tianjin University, Nankai District, Tianjin 300072, China. lihang2499@126.com.
Xiu-Jun GongSchool of Computer Science and Technology, Tianjin University, Nankai District, Tianjin 300072, China. gongxj@tju.edu.cn.ORCID 0000-0001-9591-2237
Hua YuSchool of Computer Science and Technology, Tianjin University, Nankai District, Tianjin 300072, China. yuhua@tju.edu.cn.
Chang ZhouSchool of Computer Science and Technology, Tianjin University, Nankai District, Tianjin 300072, China. fujisyu@163.com.

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Abstract

Machine learning based predictions of protein⁻protein interactions (PPIs) could provide valuable insights into protein functions, disease occurrence, and therapy design on a large scale. The intensive feature engineering in most of these methods makes the prediction task more tedious and trivial. The emerging deep learning technology enabling automatic feature engineering is gaining great success in various fields. However, the over-fitting and generalization of its models are not yet well investigated in most scenarios. Here, we present a deep neural network framework (DNN-PPI) for predicting PPIs using features learned automatically only from protein primary sequences. Within the framework, the sequences of two interacting proteins are sequentially fed into the encoding, embedding, convolution neural network (CNN), and long short-term memory (LSTM) neural network layers. Then, a concatenated vector of the two outputs from the previous layer is wired as the input of the fully connected neural network. Finally, the Adam optimizer is applied to learn the network weights in a back-propagation fashion. The different types of features, including semantic associations between amino acids, position-related sequence segments (motif), and their long- and short-term dependencies, are captured in the embedding, CNN and LSTM layers, respectively. When the model was trained on Pan's human PPI dataset, it achieved a prediction accuracy of 98.78% at the Matthew's correlation coefficient (MCC) of 97.57%. The prediction accuracies for six external datasets ranged from 92.80% to 97.89%, making them superior to those achieved with previous methods. When performed on

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Neural Networks, ComputerProtein Interaction MappingAmino Acid SequenceAnimalsHumansProtein Bindingconvolution neural networkslong short-term memory neural networksmodel generalizationprotein–protein interaction

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PMCPMC6222503

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