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{"target":"https://pubannotation.org/docs/sourcedb/PMC/sourceid/4331676","sourcedb":"PMC","sourceid":"4331676","source_url":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/4331676","text":"Background\nDNA-binding proteins play a pivotal role in various intra- and extra-cellular activities ranging from DNA replication to gene expression control. Identification of DNA-binding proteins is one of the major challenges in the field of genome annotation. There have been several computational methods proposed in the literature to deal with the DNA-binding protein identification. However, most of them can't provide an invaluable knowledge base for our understanding of DNA-protein interactions.\n\nResults\nWe firstly presented a new protein sequence encoding method called PSSM Distance Transformation, and then constructed a DNA-binding protein identification method (SVM-PSSM-DT) by combining PSSM Distance Transformation with support vector machine (SVM). First, the PSSM profiles are generated by using the PSI-BLAST program to search the non-redundant (NR) database. Next, the PSSM profiles are transformed into uniform numeric representations appropriately by distance transformation scheme. Lastly, the resulting uniform numeric representations are inputted into a SVM classifier for prediction. Thus whether a sequence can bind to DNA or not can be determined. In benchmark test on 525 DNA-binding and 550 non DNA-binding proteins using jackknife validation, the present model achieved an ACC of 79.96%, MCC of 0.622 and AUC of 86.50%. This performance is considerably better than most of the existing state-of-the-art predictive methods. When tested on a recently constructed independent dataset PDB186, SVM-PSSM-DT also achieved the best performance with ACC of 80.00%, MCC of 0.647 and AUC of 87.40%, and outperformed some existing state-of-the-art methods.\n\nConclusions\nThe experiment results demonstrate that PSSM Distance Transformation is an available protein sequence encoding method and SVM-PSSM-DT is a useful tool for identifying the DNA-binding proteins. A user-friendly web-server of SVM-PSSM-DT was constructed, which is freely accessible to the public at the web-site on http://bioinformatics.hitsz.edu.cn/PSSM-DT/.","divisions":[{"label":"sec","span":{"begin":0,"end":503}},{"label":"title","span":{"begin":0,"end":10}},{"label":"p","span":{"begin":11,"end":503}},{"label":"sec","span":{"begin":505,"end":1675}},{"label":"title","span":{"begin":505,"end":512}},{"label":"p","span":{"begin":513,"end":1675}},{"label":"title","span":{"begin":1677,"end":1688}}],"tracks":[]}