Abstract
Background: Viral infection and diseases are caused by various viruses involved in the protein-protein interaction (PPI) between virus and host, which are a threat to human health. Studying the virus-host PPI is beneficial to apprehending the mechanism of viral infection and developing new treatment drugs. Although several computational methods for predicting the virus-host PPI have been proposed, most of them are supported by the machine learning algorithms, making the hidden high-level feature difficult to be extracted. Results: We proposed a novel hybrid deep learning framework combined with four CNN layers and LSTM to predict the virus-host PPI only using protein sequence information. CNN can extract the nonlinear position-related features of protein sequence, and LSTM can obtain the long-term relevant information. L1-regularized logistic regression is applied to eliminate the noise and redundant information. Our model achieved the best performance on the benchmark dataset and independent set compared with other existing methods. Conclusion: Our method, through the hybrid deep neural network, is useful for predicting virus-host PPI using protein sequence alone, and achieved the best prediction performance compared with other existing methods, which is promising on the virus-host PPI prediction
A hybrid deep learning framework for predicting the protein-protein interaction between virus and host