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ArticleScientific reports2022

SCORPION is a stacking-based ensemble learning framework for accurate prediction of phage virion proteins.

Saeed Ahmad, Phasit Charoenkwan, Julian M W Quinn, Mohammad Ali Moni, Md Mehedi Hasan, Pietro Lio', Watshara Shoombuatong

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Saeed AhmadCenter of Data Mining and Biomedical Informatics, Faculty of Medical Technology, Mahidol University, Bangkok, 10700, Thailand.
Phasit CharoenkwanModern Management and Information Technology, College of Arts, Media and Technology, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, 50200, Thailand.
Julian M W QuinnBone Biology Division, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, 384 Victoria Street, Darlinghurst, NSW, 2010, Australia.
Mohammad Ali MoniFaculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, 4072, Australia.
Md Mehedi HasanDivision of Biomedical Informatics and Genomics, John W. Deming Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Tulane Center for Biomedical Informatics and Genomics, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, 70112, USA.
Pietro Lio'Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 0FD, UK.
Watshara ShoombuatongCenter of Data Mining and Biomedical Informatics, Faculty of Medical Technology, Mahidol University, Bangkok, 10700, Thailand. watshara.sho@mahidol.ac.th.

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Abstract

Fast and accurate identification of phage virion proteins (PVPs) would greatly aid facilitation of antibacterial drug discovery and development. Although, several research efforts based on machine learning (ML) methods have been made for in silico identification of PVPs, these methods have certain limitations. Therefore, in this study, we propose a new computational approach, termed SCORPION, (StaCking-based Predictior fOR Phage VIrion PrOteiNs), to accurately identify PVPs using only protein primary sequences. Specifically, we explored comprehensive 13 different feature descriptors from different aspects (i.e., compositional information, composition-transition-distribution information, position-specific information and physicochemical properties) with 10 popular ML algorithms to construct a pool of optimal baseline models. These optimal baseline models were then used to generate probabilistic features (PFs) and considered as a new feature vector. Finally, we utilized a two-step feature selection strategy to determine the optimal PF feature vector and used this feature vector to develop a stacked model (SCORPION). Both tenfold cross-validation and independent test results indicate that SCORPION achieves superior predictive performance than its constitute baseline models and existing methods. We anticipate SCORPION will serve as a useful tool for the cost-effective and large-scale screening of new PVPs. The source codes and datasets for this work are available for downloading in the GitHub repository ( https://github.com/saeed344/SCORPION ).

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BacteriophagesAlgorithmsAnimalsComputational BiologyMachine LearningScorpionsVirion

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