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Inverse Potts model improves accuracy of phylogenetic profiling
MOTIVATION: Phylogenetic profiling is a powerful computational method for revealing the functions of function-unknown genes. Although conventional similarity metrics in phylogenetic profiling achieved high prediction accuracy, they have two estimation biases: an evolutionary bias and a spurious corr...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8963296/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35060594 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btac034 |
Sumario: | MOTIVATION: Phylogenetic profiling is a powerful computational method for revealing the functions of function-unknown genes. Although conventional similarity metrics in phylogenetic profiling achieved high prediction accuracy, they have two estimation biases: an evolutionary bias and a spurious correlation bias. While previous studies reduced the evolutionary bias by considering a phylogenetic tree, few studies have analyzed the spurious correlation bias. RESULTS: To reduce the spurious correlation bias, we developed metrics based on the inverse Potts model (IPM) for phylogenetic profiling. We also developed a metric based on both the IPM and a phylogenetic tree. In an empirical dataset analysis, we demonstrated that these IPM-based metrics improved the prediction performance of phylogenetic profiling. In addition, we found that the integration of several metrics, including the IPM-based metrics, had superior performance to a single metric. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: The source code is freely available at https://github.com/fukunagatsu/Ipm. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online. |
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