Motif-based protein ranking by network propagation

MOTIVATION Sequence similarity often suggests evolutionary relationships between protein sequences that can be important for inferring similarity of structure or function. The most widely-used pairwise sequence comparison algorithms for homology detection, such as BLAST and PSI-BLAST, often fail to detect less conserved remotely-related targets. RESULTS In this paper, we propose a new general graph-based propagation algorithm called MotifProp to detect more subtle similarity relationships than pairwise comparison methods. MotifProp is based on a protein-motif network, in which edges connect proteins and the k-mer based motif features that they contain. We show that our new motif-based propagation algorithm can improve the ranking results over a base algorithm, such as PSI-BLAST, that is used to initialize the ranking. Despite the complex structure of the protein-motif network, MotifProp can be easily interpreted using the top-ranked motifs and motif-rich regions induced by the propagation, both of which are helpful for discovering conserved structural components in remote homologies.

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