Title:Recent Advancement in Predicting Subcellular Localization of Mycobacterial Protein with Machine Learning Methods
Volume: 16
Issue: 5
Author(s): Shi-Hao Li, Zheng-Xing Guan, Dan Zhang, Zi-Mei Zhang, Jian Huang, Wuritu Yang*Hao Lin*
Affiliation:
- Key Laboratory for Neuro-Information of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Center for Informational Biology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu,China
- Key Laboratory for Neuro-Information of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Center for Informational Biology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu,China
Keywords:
Subcellular localization, mycobacterial protein, support vector machine, feature selection, mycobacterium tuberculosis
(MTB), terrible tuberculosis (TB).
Abstract: Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) can cause the terrible tuberculosis (TB), which is
reported as one of the most dreadful epidemics. Although many biochemical molecular drugs have
been developed to cope with this disease, the drug resistance—especially the multidrug-resistant
(MDR) and extensively drug-resistance (XDR)—poses a huge threat to the treatment. However,
traditional biochemical experimental method to tackle TB is time-consuming and costly. Benefited
by the appearance of the enormous genomic and proteomic sequence data, TB can be treated via
sequence-based biological computational approach-bioinformatics. Studies on predicting subcellular
localization of mycobacterial protein (MBP) with high precision and efficiency may help figure
out the biological function of these proteins and then provide useful insights for protein function
annotation as well as drug design. In this review, we reported the progress that has been made in
computational prediction of subcellular localization of MBP including the following aspects: 1)
Construction of benchmark datasets. 2) Methods of feature extraction. 3) Techniques of feature selection.
4) Application of several published prediction algorithms. 5) The published results. 6) The
further study on prediction of subcellular localization of MBP.