Yujian Yuan

Yujian Yuan


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Academic Career Length

5Years (2022-Present)

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19 August 2022 in BMC Bioinformatics
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WLWei Li
Wei Li
LYLina Yang
Lina Yang
YQYu Qiu
Yu Qiu
YYYujian Yuan
Yujian Yuan
XLXi Chun Li
Xi Chun Li
ZMZuqiang Meng
Zuqiang Meng
Amino acid property-aware phylogenetic analysis (APPA) refers to the phylogenetic analysis method based on amino acid property encoding, which is used for understanding and inferring evolutionary relationships between species from the molecular perspective. Fast Fourier transform (FFT) and Higuchi’s fractal dimension (HFD) have excellent performance in describing sequences’ structural and complexity information for APPA. However, with the exponential growth of protein sequence data, it is very important to develop a reliable APPA method for protein sequence analysis. Consequently, we propose a new method named FFP, it joints FFT and HFD. Firstly, FFP is used to encode protein sequences on the basis of the important physicochemical properties of amino acids, the dissociation constant, which determines acidity and basicity of protein molecules. Secondly, FFT and HFD are used to generate the feature vectors of encoded sequences, whereafter, the distance matrix is calculated from the cosine function, which describes the degree of similarity between species. The smaller the distance between them, the more similar they are. Finally, the phylogenetic tree is constructed. When FFP is tested for phylogenetic analysis on four groups of protein sequences, the results are obviously better than other comparisons, with the highest accuracy up to more than 97%. FFP has higher accuracy in APPA and multi-sequence alignment. It also can measure the protein sequence similarity effectively. And it is hoped to play a role in APPA’s related research.