Granular support vector machine to identify unknown structural classes of protein.

To date, classification of structural class using local protein structure rather than the whole structure has been gaining widespread attention. It is noted that the structural class lies in local composition or arrangement of secondary structure, while the threshold-based classification method has restricted rules in determining these structural classes. As a consequence, some of the structures are unknown. In order to determine these unknown structural classes, we propose a fusion algorithm, abbreviated as GSVM-SigLpsSCPred (Granular Support Vector Machine--with Significant Local protein structure for Structural Class Prediction), which consists of two major components, which are: optimal local protein structure to represent the feature vector and granular support vector machine to predict the unknown structural classes. The results highlight the performance of GSVM-SigLpsSCPred as an alternative computational method for low-identity sequences.