Biological Language Model. Qiwen Dong

       Acknowledgments

      This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China under grant 2016YFB1000905 and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. U1401256, U1711262, U1811264, 61672234, 61961032, 31260203, 61402177).

      We would like to thank all the people who have made contributions to and given their valuable suggestions regarding this book, especially Bin Liu, Ming Gao, Dingjiang Huang and Daocheng Hong. We would also like to express our sincere thanks and appreciation to the people at University Press, for their generous help throughout the publication preparation process.

       Contents

       East China Normal University Scientific Reports

       Preface

       Acknowledgments

       1.Introduction

       1.1Background and Motivation

       1.2Related Topics

       1.3Organization of the Book Content

       References

       2.Linguistic Feature Analysis of Protein Sequences

       2.1Motivation and Basic Idea

       2.2Comparative n-gram Analysis

       2.3The Zipf Law Analysis

       2.4Distinguishing the Organisms by Uni-Gram Model

       2.5Conclusions

       References

       3.Amino Acid Encoding for Protein Sequence

       3.1Motivation and Basic Idea

       3.2Related Work

       3.3Discussion

       3.4The Assessment of Encoding Methods for Protein Secondary Structure Prediction

       3.5Assessments of Encoding Methods for Protein Fold Recognition

       3.6Conclusions

       References

       4.Remote Homology Detection

       4.1Motivation and Basic Idea

       4.2Related Work

       4.3Latent Semantic Analysis

       4.4Auto-cross Covariance Transformation

       4.5Conclusions

       References

       5.Structure Prediction

       5.1Motivation and Basic Idea

       5.2Related Work

       5.3Domain Boundary Prediction

       5.4Building Blocks of Protein Local Structure

       5.5Characterization of Protein Flexibility Based on Structural Alphabets

       5.6Novel Nonlinear Knowledge-based Mean Force Potentials

       5.7Conclusions

       References

       6.Function Prediction

       6.1Motivation and Basic Idea

       6.2Profile-level Interface Propensities for Binding Site Prediction

       6.3Gene Ontology-Based Protein Function Prediction

       6.4Prediction of Protein–Protein Interaction from Primary Sequences

       6.5Identifying the Missing Proteins using the Biological Language Model

       6.6Conclusions

       References

       7.Summary and Future Perspectives

       Index