Author(s)

Feng SHI, Qiujian CHEN, Nana LI

School of Science, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China.

Apoptosis proteins have a central role in the development and homeostasis of an organism. These proteins are very important for the understanding the mechanism of programmed cell death, and their function is related to their types. The apoptosis proteins are categorized into the following four types: (1) Cytoplasmic protein; (2) Plasma membrane-bound protein; (3) Mitochondrial inner and outer proteins; (4) Other proteins. A novel method, the Hilbert-Huang transform, is applied for predicting the type of a given apoptosis protein with support vector machine. High success rates were obtained by the re-substitute test (98/98=100%), jackknife test (91/98 = 92.9%).

Hilbert Huang transform, support vector machine, subcellular location predict

SHI, F. , CHEN, Q. and LI, N. (2008) Hilbert Huang Transform for Predicting Proteins Subcellular Location. Journal of Biomedical Science and Engineering, 1, 59-63. doi: 10.4236/jbise.2008.11009.