A novel approach for protein secondary structure prediction using encoder–decoder with attention mechanism model

Abstract

Computational biology faces many challenges like protein secondary structure prediction (PSS), prediction of solvent accessibility, etc. In this work, we addressed PSS prediction. PSS is based on sequence-structure mapping and interaction among amino acid residues. We proposed an encoder–decoder with an attention mechanism model, which considers the mapping of sequence structure and interaction among residues. The attention mechanism is used to select prominent features from amino acid residues. The proposed model is trained on CB513 and CullPDB open datasets using the Nvidia DGX system. We have tested our proposed method for Q ₃ and Q ₈ accuracy, segment of overlap, and Mathew correlation coefficient. We achieved 70.63 and 78.93% Q ₃ and Q ₈ accuracy, respectively, on the CullPDB dataset whereas 79.8 and 77.13% Q ₃ and Q ₈ accuracy on the CB513 dataset. We observed improvement in SOV up to 80.29 and 91.3% on CullPDB and CB513 datasets. We achieved the results using our proposed model in very few epochs, which is better than the state-of-the-art methods.