JPred4 (http://www.compbio.dundee.ac.uk/jpred4) is the latest version of the popular JPred protein secondary structure prediction server which provides predictions by the JNet algorithm, one of the most accurate methods for secondary structure prediction. In addition to protein secondary structure, JPred also makes predictions of solvent accessibility and coiled-coil regions. The JPred service ...

For certain categories of sequences, information from both the past and the future can be used for analysis and predictions at time t. This is the case for biological sequences where the nature and function of a region in a sequence may strongly depend on events located both upstream and downstream. We develop a new family of adaptive graphical model architectures for learning non-causal sequen...

In order to compare orthogonal encoding, five bye encoding, codon encoding (two) and profile encoding to find out their virtues and shortcomings, we carefully studied them with artificial neural network. Results indicate that profile encoding that preserves the redundant evolutionary information gets higher predictive performance. The experimental results show that combining profile encoding an...

We have developed a hybrid system to predict the secondary structures (alpha-helix, beta-sheet and coil) of proteins and achieved 66.4% accuracy, with correlation coefficients of C(coil) = 0.429, C alpha = 0.470 and C beta = 0.387. This system contains three subsystems ("experts"): a neural network module, a statistical module and a memory-based reasoning module. First, the three experts indepe...