Bioinformatics Vol. 17 no. 10 2001
Pages 920-926
© 2001 Oxford University Press
Automatic rule generation for protein annotation with the C4.5 data mining algorithm applied on SWISS-PROT
The EMBL Outstation, The European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK
Received on April 20, 2001
; revised on July 8, 2001
; accepted on July 8, 2001
Motivation: The gap between the amount of newly submitted protein data and reliable functional annotation in public databases is growing. Traditional manual annotation by literature curation and sequence analysis tools without the use of automated annotation systems is not able to keep up with the ever increasing quantity of data that is submitted. Automated supplements to manually curated databases such as TrEMBL or GenPept cover raw data but provide only limited annotation. To improve this situation automatic tools are needed that support manual annotation, automatically increase the amount of reliable information and help to detect inconsistencies in manually generated annotations.
Results: A standard data mining algorithm was successfully applied to gain knowledge about the Keyword annotation in SWISS-PROT. 11 306 rules were generated, which are provided in a database and can be applied to yet unannotated protein sequences and viewed using a web browser. They rely on the taxonomy of the organism, in which the protein was found and on signature matches of its sequence. The statistical evaluation of the generated rules by cross-validation suggests that by applying them on arbitrary proteins 33% of their keyword annotation can be generated with an error rate of 1.5%. The coverage rate of the keyword annotation can be increased to 60% by tolerating a higher error rate of 5%.
Availability: The results of the automatic data mining process can be browsed on http://golgi.ebi.ac.uk:8080/Spearmint/ Source code is available upon request.
Contact: kretsch{at}ebi.ac.uk
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