Abstract
BACKGROUND: Apoptosis is associated with some human diseases, including cancer, autoimmune disease, neurodegenerative disease and ischemic damage, etc. Apoptosis proteins subcellular localization information is very important for understanding the mechanism of programmed cell death and the development of drugs. Therefore, the prediction of subcellular localization of apoptosis protein is still a challenging task. RESULTS: In this paper, we propose a novel method for predicting apoptosis protein subcellular localization, called PsePSSM-DCCA-LFDA. Firstly, the protein sequences are extracted by combining pseudo-position specific scoring matrix (PsePSSM) and detrended cross-correlation analysis coefficient (DCCA coefficient), then the extracted feature information is reduced dimensionality by LFDA (local Fisher discriminant analysis). Finally, the optimal feature vectors are input to the SVM classifier to predict subcellular location of the apoptosis proteins. The overall prediction accuracy of 99.7, 99.6 and 100% are achieved respectively on the three benchmark datasets by the most rigorous jackknife test, which is better than other state-of-the-art methods. CONCLUSION: The experimental results indicate that our method can significantly improve the prediction accuracy of subcellular localization of apoptosis proteins, which is quite high to be able to become a promising tool for further proteomics studies. The source code and all datasets are available at https://github.com/QUST-BSBRC/PsePSSM-DCCA-LFDA/ .