Article ; Online: A multitask transfer learning framework for the prediction of virus-human protein–protein interactions
BMC Bioinformatics, Vol 22, Iss 1, Pp 1-
2021 Volume 24
Abstract: Abstract Background Viral infections are causing significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. Understanding the interaction patterns between a particular virus and human proteins plays a crucial role in unveiling the underlying mechanism of viral ... ...
Abstract | Abstract Background Viral infections are causing significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. Understanding the interaction patterns between a particular virus and human proteins plays a crucial role in unveiling the underlying mechanism of viral infection and pathogenesis. This could further help in prevention and treatment of virus-related diseases. However, the task of predicting protein–protein interactions between a new virus and human cells is extremely challenging due to scarce data on virus-human interactions and fast mutation rates of most viruses. Results We developed a multitask transfer learning approach that exploits the information of around 24 million protein sequences and the interaction patterns from the human interactome to counter the problem of small training datasets. Instead of using hand-crafted protein features, we utilize statistically rich protein representations learned by a deep language modeling approach from a massive source of protein sequences. Additionally, we employ an additional objective which aims to maximize the probability of observing human protein–protein interactions. This additional task objective acts as a regularizer and also allows to incorporate domain knowledge to inform the virus-human protein–protein interaction prediction model. Conclusions Our approach achieved competitive results on 13 benchmark datasets and the case study for the SARS-CoV-2 virus receptor. Experimental results show that our proposed model works effectively for both virus-human and bacteria-human protein–protein interaction prediction tasks. We share our code for reproducibility and future research at https://git.l3s.uni-hannover.de/dong/multitask-transfer . |
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Keywords | Protein–protein interaction ; Human PPI ; Virus-human PPI ; Multitask ; Transfer learning ; Protein embedding ; Computer applications to medicine. Medical informatics ; R858-859.7 ; Biology (General) ; QH301-705.5 |
Subject code | 612 |
Language | English |
Publishing date | 2021-11-01T00:00:00Z |
Publisher | BMC |
Document type | Article ; Online |
Database | BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection) |
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