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Synthesizing Regularity Exposing Attributes in Large Protein Databases

This thesis describes a system that synthesizes regularity exposing attributes from large protein databases. After processing primary and secondary structure data, this system discovers an amino acid representation that captures what are thought to be the three most important amino acid characteristics (size, charge, and hydrophobicity) for tertiary structure prediction. A neural network trained using this 16 bit representation achieves a performance accuracy on the secondary structure prediction problem that is comparable to the one achieved by a neural network trained using the standard 24 bit amino acid representation. In addition, the thesis describes bounds on secondary structure prediction accuracy, derived using an optimal learning algorithm and the probably approximately correct (PAC) model.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:MIT/oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/6789
Date01 May 1993
Creatorsde la Maza, Michael
Source SetsM.I.T. Theses and Dissertation
Languageen_US
Detected LanguageEnglish
Format90 p., 204397 bytes, 794429 bytes, application/octet-stream, application/pdf
RelationAITR-1444

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