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Proteins are the most important biomolecules for living organisms. The understanding of protein structure, function, dynamics and transport is one of most challenging tasks in biological science. In the present work, persistent homology is,…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2014-12-10 Kelin Xia , Guo-Wei Wei

Sequence-based protein homology detection has been extensively studied and so far the most sensitive method is based upon comparison of protein sequence profiles, which are derived from multiple sequence alignment (MSA) of sequence homologs…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2015-06-18 Jianzhu Ma , Sheng Wang , Zhiyong Wang , Jinbo Xu

We present a machine learning approach that leverages persistent homology to classify bacterial flagellar motors into two functional states: rotated and stalled. By embedding protein structural data into a topological framework, we extract…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-19 Zakaria Lamine , Abdelatif Hafid , Mohamed Rahouti

Motivation Protein fold recognition is an important problem in structural bioinformatics. Almost all traditional fold recognition methods use sequence (homology) comparison to indirectly predict the fold of a tar get protein based on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Jie Hou , Badri Adhikari , Jianlin Cheng

Recently, persistent homology has had tremendous success in biomolecular data analysis. It works by examining the topological relationship or connectivity of a group of atoms in a molecule at a variety of scales, then rendering a family of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2019-03-27 David Bramer , Guo-Wei Wei

Signaling proteins are an important topic in drug development due to the increased importance of finding fast, accurate and cheap methods to evaluate new molecular targets involved in specific diseases. The complexity of the protein…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-04-11 Carlos Fernandez-Lozano , Ruben F. Cuinas , Jose A. Seoane , Enrique Fernandez-Blanco , Julian Dorado , Cristian R. Munteanu

In this study, we present a novel molecular fingerprint generation method based on multiparameter persistent homology. This approach reveals the latent structures and relationships within molecular geometry, and detects topological features…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-11-21 Andac Demir , Bulent Kiziltan

Persistent homology is an effective method for extracting topological information, represented as persistent diagrams, of spatial structure data. Hence it is well-suited for the study of protein structures. Attempts to incorporate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-01 An Wu , Yu Pan , Fuqi Zhou , Jinghui Yan , Chuanlu Liu

A suitable feature representation that can both preserve the data intrinsic information and reduce data complexity and dimensionality is key to the performance of machine learning models. Deeply rooted in algebraic topology, persistent…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-11-02 Chi Seng Pun , Kelin Xia , Si Xian Lee

This work introduces a number of algebraic topology approaches, such as multicomponent persistent homology, multi-level persistent homology and electrostatic persistence for the representation, characterization, and description of small…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-02-07 Zixuan Cang , Lin Mu , Guowei Wei

In this study, we present a method of pattern mining based on network theory that enables the identification of protein structures or complexes from synthetic volume densities, without the knowledge of predefined templates or human biases…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-10-18 August George , Doo Nam Kim , Trevor Moser , Ian T. Gildea , James E. Evans , Margaret S. Cheung

Techniques from computational topology, in particular persistent homology, are becoming increasingly relevant for data analysis. Their stable metrics permit the use of many distance-based data analysis methods, such as multidimensional…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-01-20 Bastian Rieck , Filip Sadlo , Heike Leitte

In recent era prediction of enzyme class from an unknown protein is one of the challenging tasks in bioinformatics. Day to day the number of proteins is increases as result the prediction of enzyme class gives a new opportunity to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Chhote Lal Prasad Gupta , Anand Bihari , Sudhakar Tripathi

Protein fold classification is a classic problem in structural biology and bioinformatics. We approach this problem using persistent homology. In particular, we use alpha shape filtrations to compare a topological representation of the data…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-08-23 W. Hamilton , J. E. Borgert , T. Hamelryck , J. S. Marron

Composed of amino acid chains that influence how they fold and thus dictating their function and features, proteins are a class of macromolecules that play a central role in major biological processes and are required for the structure,…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-07-15 Aaron Wang

Proteins play a pivotal role in biological systems. The use of machine learning algorithms for protein classification can assist and even guide biological experiments, offering crucial insights for biotechnological applications. We…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-10-24 Yizheng Wang , Yixiao Zhai , Yijie Ding , Quan Zou

Persistent homology (PH) has recently emerged as a powerful tool for extracting topological features. Integrating PH into machine learning and deep learning models enhances topology awareness and interpretability. However, most PH methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Xinyang Chen , Amaël Broustet , Guanyuan Zeng , Cheng He , Guoting Chen

Persistent homology has been devised as a promising tool for the topological simplification of complex data. However, it is computationally intractable for large data sets. In this work, we introduce multiresolution persistent homology for…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2015-04-02 Kelin Xia , Zhixiong Zhao , Guo-Wei Wei

Although deep learning approaches have had tremendous success in image, video and audio processing, computer vision, and speech recognition, their applications to three-dimensional (3D) biomolecular structural data sets have been hindered…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2017-11-01 Zixuan Cang , Guo-Wei Wei

Understanding how protein mutations affect protein-nucleic acid binding is critical for unraveling disease mechanisms and advancing therapies. Current experimental approaches are laborious, and computational methods remain limited in…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-30 Xiang Liu , Junjie Wee , Guo-Wei Wei
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