Multi-S3P: Protein Secondary Structure Prediction With Specialized Multi-Network and Self-Attention-Based Deep Learning Model

Protein structure prediction (PSP) is a vital challenge in bioinformatics, structural biology and drug discovery. Protein secondary structure (SS) prediction is critical since three-dimensional (3D) structures are primarily made up of secondary structures. With the advancement of deep learning appro...

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Main Authors: M. M. Mohamed Mufassirin, M. A. Hakim Newton, Julia Rahman, Abdul Sattar
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author M. M. Mohamed Mufassirin
M. A. Hakim Newton
Julia Rahman
Abdul Sattar
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description Protein structure prediction (PSP) is a vital challenge in bioinformatics, structural biology and drug discovery. Protein secondary structure (SS) prediction is critical since three-dimensional (3D) structures are primarily made up of secondary structures. With the advancement of deep learning approaches, SS classification accuracy has been significantly improved. Many existing methods use an ensemble of complex neural networks to improve SS prediction. Because of the high dimensionality of the hyperparameter space, deep neural networks with complex architectures are typically challenging to train effectively. Also, predicting secondary structures in the boundary regions between different types of SS is challenging. This study presents Multi-S3P, which employs bidirectional Long-Short-Term-Memory (BILSTM) and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) with a self-attention mechanism to improve the secondary structure prediction using an effective training strategy to capture the unique characteristics of each type of secondary structure and combine them more effectively. The ensemble of CNN and BILSTM can learn both contextual information and long-range interactions between the residues. In addition, using a self-attention mechanism allows the model to focus on the most important features for improving performance. We used the SPOT-1D dataset for the training and validation of our model using a set of four input features derived from amino acid sequences. Further, the model was tested on four popular independent test datasets and compared with various state-of-the-art predictors. The presented results show that Multi-S3P outperformed the other methods in terms of Q3, Q8 accuracy and other performance metrics, achieving the highest Q3 accuracy of 87.57% and a Q8 accuracy of 77.56% on the TEST2016 test set. More importantly, Multi-S3P demonstrates high performance in SS boundary regions. Our experiment also demonstrates that the combination of different input features and a multi-network-based training strategy significantly improved the performance.
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spelling doaj-art-4b1fb70b679e42c49606635c4e9d880f2024-12-11T00:01:00ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362023-01-0111570835709610.1109/ACCESS.2023.328270210143539Multi-S3P: Protein Secondary Structure Prediction With Specialized Multi-Network and Self-Attention-Based Deep Learning ModelM. M. Mohamed Mufassirin0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3141-7023M. A. Hakim Newton1Julia Rahman2https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5005-9922Abdul Sattar3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2567-2052School of Information and Communication Technology, Griffith University, Nathan, QLD, AustraliaInstitute for Integrated and Intelligent Systems, Griffith University, Nathan, QLD, AustraliaSchool of Information and Communication Technology, Griffith University, Nathan, QLD, AustraliaSchool of Information and Communication Technology, Griffith University, Nathan, QLD, AustraliaProtein structure prediction (PSP) is a vital challenge in bioinformatics, structural biology and drug discovery. Protein secondary structure (SS) prediction is critical since three-dimensional (3D) structures are primarily made up of secondary structures. With the advancement of deep learning approaches, SS classification accuracy has been significantly improved. Many existing methods use an ensemble of complex neural networks to improve SS prediction. Because of the high dimensionality of the hyperparameter space, deep neural networks with complex architectures are typically challenging to train effectively. Also, predicting secondary structures in the boundary regions between different types of SS is challenging. This study presents Multi-S3P, which employs bidirectional Long-Short-Term-Memory (BILSTM) and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) with a self-attention mechanism to improve the secondary structure prediction using an effective training strategy to capture the unique characteristics of each type of secondary structure and combine them more effectively. The ensemble of CNN and BILSTM can learn both contextual information and long-range interactions between the residues. In addition, using a self-attention mechanism allows the model to focus on the most important features for improving performance. We used the SPOT-1D dataset for the training and validation of our model using a set of four input features derived from amino acid sequences. Further, the model was tested on four popular independent test datasets and compared with various state-of-the-art predictors. The presented results show that Multi-S3P outperformed the other methods in terms of Q3, Q8 accuracy and other performance metrics, achieving the highest Q3 accuracy of 87.57% and a Q8 accuracy of 77.56% on the TEST2016 test set. More importantly, Multi-S3P demonstrates high performance in SS boundary regions. Our experiment also demonstrates that the combination of different input features and a multi-network-based training strategy significantly improved the performance.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10143539/Deep learningconvolutional neural networkprotein structure predictionprotein secondary structurerecurrent neural network
spellingShingle M. M. Mohamed Mufassirin
M. A. Hakim Newton
Julia Rahman
Abdul Sattar
Multi-S3P: Protein Secondary Structure Prediction With Specialized Multi-Network and Self-Attention-Based Deep Learning Model
IEEE Access
Deep learning
convolutional neural network
protein structure prediction
protein secondary structure
recurrent neural network
title Multi-S3P: Protein Secondary Structure Prediction With Specialized Multi-Network and Self-Attention-Based Deep Learning Model
title_full Multi-S3P: Protein Secondary Structure Prediction With Specialized Multi-Network and Self-Attention-Based Deep Learning Model
title_fullStr Multi-S3P: Protein Secondary Structure Prediction With Specialized Multi-Network and Self-Attention-Based Deep Learning Model
title_full_unstemmed Multi-S3P: Protein Secondary Structure Prediction With Specialized Multi-Network and Self-Attention-Based Deep Learning Model
title_short Multi-S3P: Protein Secondary Structure Prediction With Specialized Multi-Network and Self-Attention-Based Deep Learning Model
title_sort multi s3p protein secondary structure prediction with specialized multi network and self attention based deep learning model
topic Deep learning
convolutional neural network
protein structure prediction
protein secondary structure
recurrent neural network
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10143539/
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