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ArticleBioData mining2020

ISLAND: in-silico proteins binding affinity prediction using sequence information.

Wajid Arshad Abbasi, Adiba Yaseen, Fahad Ul Hassan, Saiqa Andleeb, Fayyaz Ul Amir Afsar Minhas

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Wajid Arshad AbbasiComputational Biology and Data Analysis Laboratory, Department of Computer Science and Information Technology, King Abdullah Campus, University of Azad Jammu & Kashmir, Muzaffarabad, Pakistan. wajidarshad@gmail.com.
Adiba YaseenBiomedical Informatics Research Laboratory, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (PIEAS), Nilore, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Fahad Ul HassanBiomedical Informatics Research Laboratory, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (PIEAS), Nilore, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Saiqa AndleebBiotechnology Laboratory, Department of Zoology, King Abdullah Campus, University of Azad Jammu & Kashmir, Muzaffarabad, Pakistan.
Fayyaz Ul Amir Afsar MinhasDepartment of Computer Science and the PathLAKE Consortium, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK. fayyaz.minhas@warwick.ac.uk.

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Higher Education Commision, Pakistan NRPU 6085Higher Education Commission, Pakistan 213-58990-2PS2-046University of Warwick Open Access Publishing Support
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Abstract

backgroundDetermining binding affinity in protein-protein interactions is important in the discovery and design of novel therapeutics and mutagenesis studies. Determination of binding affinity of proteins in the formation of protein complexes requires sophisticated, expensive and time-consuming experimentation which can be replaced with computational methods. Most computational prediction techniques require protein structures that limit their applicability to protein complexes with known structures. In this work, we explore sequence-based protein binding affinity prediction using machine learning.

methodWe have used protein sequence information instead of protein structures along with machine learning techniques to accurately predict the protein binding affinity.

resultsWe present our findings that the true generalization performance of even the state-of-the-art sequence-only predictor is far from satisfactory and that the development of machine learning methods for binding affinity prediction with improved generalization performance is still an open problem. We have also proposed a sequence-based novel protein binding affinity predictor called ISLAND which gives better accuracy than existing methods over the same validation set as well as on external independent test dataset. A cloud-based webserver implementation of ISLAND and its python code are available at https://sites.google.com/view/wajidarshad/software .

conclusionThis paper highlights the fact that the true generalization performance of even the state-of-the-art sequence-only predictor of binding affinity is far from satisfactory and that the development of effective and practical methods in this domain is still an open problem.

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Binding affinityProtein-protein interactionProtein sequence analysisSupport vector machinesWeb services

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PMCPMC7688004

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