TY - JOUR AU - Zhao, Zhi-Qin AU - Luo, Liang AU - Liu, Xiao-Yan PY - 2018 TI - Low-Homology Protein Structural Class Prediction from Secondary Structure Based on Visibility and Horizontal Visibility Network JF - American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology VL - 14 IS - 1 DO - 10.3844/ajbbsp.2018.67.75 UR - https://thescipub.com/abstract/ajbbsp.2018.67.75 AB - In this study, based on the predicted secondary structures of proteins, we propose a new approach to predict protein structural classes (α,β,α/β,α+β) for three widely used low-homology data sets. Fist, we obtain two time siries from the chaos game representation of each predicted secondary structure; second, based on two time series, we construct visibility and horizontal visibility network, respectively and generate a set of features using 17 network features; finaly, we predict each protein structure class using support vector machine and Fisher’s linear discriminant algorithm, respectively. In order to evaluate our method, the leave one out cross-validating test is employed on three data sets. Results show that our approach has been provided as a effective tool for the prediction of low-homology protein structural classes.