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Protein Secondary Structure Prediction with Long Short Term Memory Networks

Quantitative Methods 2015-01-06 v2 Machine Learning Neural and Evolutionary Computing

Abstract

Prediction of protein secondary structure from the amino acid sequence is a classical bioinformatics problem. Common methods use feed forward neural networks or SVMs combined with a sliding window, as these models does not naturally handle sequential data. Recurrent neural networks are an generalization of the feed forward neural network that naturally handle sequential data. We use a bidirectional recurrent neural network with long short term memory cells for prediction of secondary structure and evaluate using the CB513 dataset. On the secondary structure 8-class problem we report better performance (0.674) than state of the art (0.664). Our model includes feed forward networks between the long short term memory cells, a path that can be further explored.

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@article{arxiv.1412.7828,
  title  = {Protein Secondary Structure Prediction with Long Short Term Memory Networks},
  author = {Søren Kaae Sønderby and Ole Winther},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.7828},
  year   = {2015}
}

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v2: adds larger network with slightly better results, update author affiliations

R2 v1 2026-06-22T07:43:50.439Z