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BIOINFORMATICS
Volume 35, Issue 12, Pages 2009-2016Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bty937
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- Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), via the Army Research Office (ARO) [W911NF-17-2-0105]
- National Science Foundation (NSF) [ABI-1551363]
- NSF [ABI-1458359]
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Motivation Antibiotic resistance constitutes a major public health crisis, and finding new sources of antimicrobial drugs is crucial to solving it. Bacteriocins, which are bacterially produced antimicrobial peptide products, are candidates for broadening the available choices of antimicrobials. However, the discovery of new bacteriocins by genomic mining is hampered by their sequences' low complexity and high variance, which frustrates sequence similarity-based searches. Results Here we use word embeddings of protein sequences to represent bacteriocins, and apply a word embedding method that accounts for amino acid order in protein sequences, to predict novel bacteriocins from protein sequences without using sequence similarity. Our method predicts, with a high probability, six yet unknown putative bacteriocins in Lactobacillus. Generalized, the representation of sequences with word embeddings preserving sequence order information can be applied to peptide and protein classification problems for which sequence similarity cannot be used. Availability and implementation Data and source code for this project are freely available at: https://github.com/nafizh/NeuBI. Supplementary information Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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