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Title: Protein docking model evaluation by 3D deep convolutional neural networks
Abstract Motivation Many important cellular processes involve physical interactions of proteins. Therefore, determining protein quaternary structures provide critical insights for understanding molecular mechanisms of functions of the complexes. To complement experimental methods, many computational methods have been developed to predict structures of protein complexes. One of the challenges in computational protein complex structure prediction is to identify near-native models from a large pool of generated models. Results We developed a convolutional deep neural network-based approach named DOcking decoy selection with Voxel-based deep neural nEtwork (DOVE) for evaluating protein docking models. To evaluate a protein docking model, DOVE scans the protein–protein interface of the model with a 3D voxel and considers atomic interaction types and their energetic contributions as input features applied to the neural network. The deep learning models were trained and validated on docking models available in the ZDock and DockGround databases. Among the different combinations of features tested, almost all outperformed existing scoring functions. Availability and implementation Codes available at http://github.com/kiharalab/DOVE, http://kiharalab.org/dove/. Supplementary information Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1922883 1825941 1925643
PAR ID:
10188399
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
Bioinformatics
Volume:
36
Issue:
7
ISSN:
1367-4803
Page Range / eLocation ID:
2113 to 2118
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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