Protein Structural Class Prediction via k-Separated Bigrams Using Position Specific Scoring Matrix

Abstract

Protein structural class prediction (SCP) is as important task in identifying protein tertiary structure and protein functions. In this study, we propose a feature extraction technique to predict secondary structures. The technique utilizes bigram (of adjacent and k-separated amino acids) information derived from Position Specific Scoring Matrix (PSSM). The technique has shown promising results when evaluated on benchmarked Ding and Dubchak dataset.