Artificial neural network method for predicting protein secondary structure content

In this paper, the neural network method was applied to predict the content of protein secondary structure elements that was based on ‘pair-coupled amino acid composition’, in which the sequence coupling effects are explicitly included through a series of conditional probability elements. The prediction was examined by a self-consistency test and an independent-dataset. Both indicated good results obtained when using the neural network method to predict the contents of α-helix, β-sheet, parallel β-sheet strand, antiparallel β-sheet strand, β-bridge, 3₁₀-helix, π-helix, H-bonded turn, bend, and random coil.