Infectious fungi have been an increasing global concern in the present era. A promising approach to tackle this pressing concern involves utilizing Antifungal peptides (AFP) to develop an antifungal drug that can selectively eliminate fungal pathogens from a host with minimal toxicity to the host. Accordingly, identifying precise therapeutic antifungal peptides is crucial for developing effective drugs and treatments. This study proposed MLAFP-XN, a neural network-based strategy for accurately detecting active AFP in sequencing data to achieve this objective. In this work, eight feature extraction techniques and the XGB feature selection strategy are utilized together to present an enhanced methodology. A total of 24 classification models were evaluated, and the most effective four have been selected. Each of these models demonstrated superior accuracy on independent test sets, with respective scores of 97.93 %, 99.47 %, and 99.48 %. Our model outperforms current state of the art methods. In addition, we created a companion website to demonstrate our AFP recognition process and use SHAP to identify the most influential properties.

Laboratory-based detection of D sites is laborious and expensive. In this study, we developed effective machine learning models employing efficient feature encoding methods to identify D sites. Initially, we explored various state-of-the-art feature encoding approaches and 30 machine learning techniques for each and selected the top eight models based on their independent testing and cross-validation outcomes. Finally, we developed DHUpredET using the extra tree classifier methods for predicting DHU sites. The DHUpredET model demonstrated balanced performance across all evaluation criteria, outperforming state-of-the-art models by 8 % and 14 % in terms of accuracy and sensitivity, respectively, on an independent test set. Further analysis revealed that the model achieved higher accuracy with position-specific two nucleotide (PS2) features, leading us to conclude that PS2 features are the best suited for the DHUpredET model. Therefore, our proposed model emerges as the most favorite choice for predicting D sites. In addition, we conducted an in-depth analysis of local features and identified a particularly significant attribute with a feature score of 0.035 for PS2_299 attributes. This tool holds immense promise as an advantageous instrument for accelerating the discovery of D modification sites, which contributes too many targeting therapeutic and understanding RNA structure.

Diabetes is one of the fatal diseases that play a vital role in the growth of other diseases in the human body. Controlling and curing diabetes in its early stages is the most significant technique to avoid its effects of diabetes. However, lack of awareness and expensive clinical tests are the primary reasons to skip clinical diagnosis and take preventive methods in lower-income countries like Bangladesh, Pakistan, and India. From this perspective, the study aims to build an automated machine learning (ML) model, which will predict diabetes at an early stage using socio-demographic characteristics rather than clinical attributes. Because clinical features are not always known to all people from lower-income countries. To find the best fit supervised ML classifier of the model, we applied six classification algorithms and found that RF outperformed with an accuracy of 99.36%. In addition, the most significant risk factors were found based on the SHAP value by all the applied classifiers. The study reveals that polyuria, polydipsia, and delayed healing are the most significant risk factors for growing diabetes. The findings indicate that the proposed model is highly capable of predicting diabetes in the early stages.

Protein S-nitrosylation (SNO) is a process involving the covalent modification of cysteine residues by nitric oxide (NO) and its derivatives. Numerous studies have demonstrated that SNO is significantly involved in cell function and pathophysiology. The identification of SNO sites is significant in clarifying their function in cellular physiology, disease processes, and potential treatment strategies, rendering it of paramount importance in medical science. This study developed a machine learning (ML) model named "K-SNOpred" and found notable performance in identifying SNO sites using the Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) feature embedding system. After collecting dbSNO and RecSNO datasets from the literature search, we applied three feature embedding systems: Doc2vec, FastText, and LSA on each dataset. The study employed various ML models and assessed their performance using multiple evaluation metrics through independent testing and 10-fold cross-validation. The evaluation's outcomes demonstrate that the proposed model achieved an accuracy of 87.56 % and an AUC score of 95.06 %, outperforming existing state-of-the-art (SOTA) models by nearly 10 % in accuracy and 6 % in AUC. Furthermore, the model demonstrated balanced sensitivity and specificity, indicating its ability to detect both positive and negative SNO sites accurately. The outstanding performance of the K-SNOpred model demonstrates its high potential for clinical use and its applicability in the biotechnology field.

Autophagy is an important cell process that may be critical for various physiological activities as well as maintenance of the cellular bioenergetic and metabolic homeostasis. Identifying the proteins involved in autophagy is essential for understanding autophagy pathways and developing treatments for autophagy-related disorders. This work introduces an innovative approach to the prediction of autophagy proteins that involves the integration of stacking classifiers with the feature fusion of Amphiphilic Pseudo Amino Acid Composition and Amino Acid Composition. Initially, protein sequences are used to extract Amphiphilic Pseudo Amino Acid Composition and Amino Acid Composition features. The complementary data collected by Amphiphilic Pseudo Amino Acid Composition and Amino Acid Composition are then integrated using a feature fusion technique. Stacking classifiers combines multiple base classifiers to improve predictive performance, using the fused features as input. The proposed method proves its efficacy in the identification of autophagy proteins by achieving an impressive accuracy of 0.9606 and the Matthews correlation coefficient (MCC) of 0.9241 on the independent test. Further, our methodology is better than the standard methods in terms of predictive accuracy, as evidenced through comparative analysis. Overall, the current study provides a realistic model for the prediction of autophagy proteins with prospects for use in the protein prediction field as well as the field of bioinformatics and biomedical to enhance future research directions.