Improved phylogenetic motif detection using parsimony

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

12-1-2005

Abstract

We have recently demonstrated (La et al, Proteins, 58:2005) that sequence fragments approximating the overall familial phylogeny, called phylogenetic motifs (PMs), represent a promising protein functional site prediction strategy. Previous results across a structurally and functionally diverse dataset indicate that phylogenetic motifs correspond to a wide variety of known functional characteristics. Phylogenetic motifs are detected using a sliding window algorithm that compares neighbor joining trees on the complete alignment to those on the sequence fragments. In this investigation we identify PMs using heuristic maximum parsimony trees. We show that when using parsimony the functional site prediction accuracy of PMs improves substantially, particularly on divergent datasets. We also show that the new PMs found using parsimony are not necessarily conserved in sequence, and, therefore, would not be detected by traditional motif (information content-based) approaches. © 2005 IEEE.

Identifier

33751174062 (Scopus)

ISBN

[0769524761, 9780769524764]

Publication Title

Proceedings Bibe 2005 5th IEEE Symposium on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1109/BIBE.2005.38

First Page

19

Last Page

26

Volume

2005

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