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ArticleScientific reports2020

Better understanding and prediction of antiviral peptides through primary and secondary structure feature importance.

Abu Sayed Chowdhury, Sarah M Reehl, Kylene Kehn-Hall, Barney Bishop, Bobbie-Jo M Webb-Robertson

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Article in Scientific reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 46 papers.

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46 citing papers in PubMed, 98 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Abu Sayed ChowdhuryBiological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, J4-18, P.O. Box 999, Richland, WA, 99354, USA.
Sarah M ReehlComputing and Analytics Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, P.O. Box 999, Richland, WA, 99354, USA.
Kylene Kehn-HallSchool of Systems Biology, George Mason University, Manassas, VA, 20110, USA.
Barney BishopDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, George Mason University, Manassas, VA, 20110, USA.
Bobbie-Jo M Webb-RobertsonBiological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, J4-18, P.O. Box 999, Richland, WA, 99354, USA. bj@pnnl.gov.
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory · USGeorge Mason University · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The emergence of viral epidemics throughout the world is of concern due to the scarcity of available effective antiviral therapeutics. The discovery of new antiviral therapies is imperative to address this challenge, and antiviral peptides (AVPs) represent a valuable resource for the development of novel therapies to combat viral infection. We present a new machine learning model to distinguish AVPs from non-AVPs using the most informative features derived from the physicochemical and structural properties of their amino acid sequences. To focus on those features that are most likely to contribute to antiviral performance, we filter potential features based on their importance for classification. These feature selection analyses suggest that secondary structure is the most important peptide sequence feature for predicting AVPs. Our Feature-Informed Reduced Machine Learning for Antiviral Peptide Prediction (FIRM-AVP) approach achieves a higher accuracy than either the model with all features or current state-of-the-art single classifiers. Understanding the features that are associated with AVP activity is a core need to identify and design new AVPs in novel systems. The FIRM-AVP code and standalone software package are available at https://github.com/pmartR/FIRM-AVP with an accompanying web application at https://msc-viz.emsl.pnnl.gov/AVPR .

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Amino Acid SequenceMachine LearningPeptidesSoftwareAntiviral AgentsAntiviral AgentsPeptides

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PMID33159146
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