Predicting the Subcellular Localization of Proteins with Multiple Sites Based on Multiple Features Fusion

Protein sub-cellular localization prediction has attracted much attention in recent years because of its importance for protein function studying and targeted drug discovery, and that makes it to be an important research field in bioinformatics. Traditional experimental methods which ascertain the protein sub-cellular locations are costly and time consuming. In the last two decades, machine learning methods got increasing development, and a large number of machine learning based protein sub-cellular location predictors have been developed. However, most of such predictors can only predict proteins in only one subcellular location. With the development of biology techniques, more and more proteins which have two or even more sub-cellular locations have been found. It is much more significant to study such proteins because they have extremely useful implication for both basic biology and bioinformatics research. In order to improve the accuracy of prediction, much more feature information which can represent the protein sequence should be extracted. In this paper, several feature extraction methods were fused together to extract the feature information, then the multi-label knearest neighbors (ML-KNN) algorithm was used to predict protein sub-cellular locations. The best overall accuracies we got for dataset s1 in constructing Gpos-mploc is 66.7304 and 59.9206 percent for dataset s2 in constructing Virus-mPLoc.