[ssml] MLE

[Dan Bolser]

On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Kevin Karplus wrote:

>
>Yes, the family pairwise search by Bill Grundy (now William Noble) is
>an interesting and fairly simple technique for trying to improve
>homology detection by using known relationships among sequences in the
>database.  I've had students implement Grundy's "product of p-values"
>technique for our HMM-based scoring methods.  In their preliminary
>tests, they showed that it might help, but their projects were never
>taken to the point where the method could be incorporated into an
>automatic prediction method.  
>
>One problem with that method is that it treats all templates in a fold
>class as equally informative and does not use information from
>templates in competing fold classes.  One can envision combining
>methods such as logisitic regression that could use the extra
>information to get better predictions.  One danger is that
>multi-domain proteins correctly have multiple correct folds, so simple
>competition between fold classes is not quite the right model.

Yup, I was thinking of implementing something like this along the lines of
the 'alignment universe' data structure implemented by Liisa Holm and
Andreas Heger (sp?). This way you could combine domain boundary
information into the calculation and additionally build up a domain
classification hierarchy from the ground up (using the information
provided by the network of homologus relationships). I never got very far
along these lines either.

Cheers,
Dan.

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