A Clique-Based Method for Improving Motif Scanning Accuracy
Quantitative Methods
2022-03-23 v1
Abstract
We present a new approach for improving motif scanning accuracy, based on analysis of in-between similarity. Given a set of motifs obtained from a scanning process, we construct an associated weighted graph. We also compute the expected weight of an edge in such a graph. It turns out that restricting results to the maximal clique in the graph, computed with respect to the expected weight, greatly increases precision, hence improves accuracy of the scan. We tested the method on an ungapped motif-characterized protein family from five plant proteomes. The method was applied to three iterative motif scanners - PSI-BLAST, JackHMMer and IGLOSS - with very good results
Cite
@article{arxiv.2203.11920,
title = {A Clique-Based Method for Improving Motif Scanning Accuracy},
author = {Braslav Rabar and Keti Nižetić and Pavle Goldstein},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.11920},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
14 pages, plenty of figures