scholarly journals Combination of deep neural network with attention mechanism enhances the explainability of protein contact prediction

Author(s):  
Chen Chen ◽  
Tianqi Wu ◽  
Zhiye Guo ◽  
Jianlin Cheng
2021 ◽  
pp. 425-435
Author(s):  
Zhongrui Zhai ◽  
Chaoli Wang ◽  
Zhanquan Sun ◽  
Shuqun Cheng ◽  
Kang Wang

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroyuki Fukuda ◽  
Kentaro Tomii

AbstractProtein contact prediction is a crucially important step for protein structure prediction. To predict a contact, approaches of two types are used: evolutionary coupling analysis (ECA) and supervised learning. ECA uses a large multiple sequence alignment (MSA) of homologue sequences and extract correlation information between residues. Supervised learning uses ECA analysis results as input features and can produce higher accuracy. As described herein, we present a new approach to contact prediction which can both extract correlation information and predict contacts in a supervised manner directly from MSA using a deep neural network (DNN). Using DNN, we can obtain higher accuracy than with earlier ECA methods. Simultaneously, we can weight each sequence in MSA to eliminate noise sequences automatically in a supervised way. It is expected that the combination of our method and other meta-learning methods can provide much higher accuracy of contact prediction.


Symmetry ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 1827
Author(s):  
Dengao Li ◽  
Hang Wu ◽  
Jumin Zhao ◽  
Ye Tao ◽  
Jian Fu

Nowadays, a series of social problems caused by cardiovascular diseases are becoming increasingly serious. Accurate and efficient classification of arrhythmias according to an electrocardiogram is of positive significance for improving the health status of people all over the world. In this paper, a new neural network structure based on the most common 12-lead electrocardiograms was proposed to realize the classification of nine arrhythmias, which consists of Inception and GRU (Gated Recurrent Units) primarily. Moreover, a new attention mechanism is added to the model, which makes sense for data symmetry. The average F1 score obtained from three different test sets was over 0.886 and the highest was 0.919. The accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity obtained from the PhysioNet public database were 0.928, 0.901, and 0.984, respectively. As a whole, this deep neural network performed well in the multi-label classification of 12-lead ECG signals and showed better stability than other methods in the case of more test samples.


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