Prediction of Antifungal Activity of Antimicrobial Peptides by Transfer Learning from Protein Pretrained Models

Peptides with antifungal activity have gained significant attention due to their potential therapeutic applications. In this study, we explore the use of pretrained protein models as feature extractors to develop predictive models for antifungal peptide activity. Various machine learning classifiers...

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Autores: Lobo, Fernando, González, Maily Selena, Boto, Alicia, Pérez de la Lastra, José Manuel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/313577
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/313577
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Antimicrobial peptides
antifungal peptides
transfer learning
Machine learning
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Sumario:Peptides with antifungal activity have gained significant attention due to their potential therapeutic applications. In this study, we explore the use of pretrained protein models as feature extractors to develop predictive models for antifungal peptide activity. Various machine learning classifiers were trained and evaluated. Our AFP predictor achieved comparable performance to current state-of-the-art methods. Overall, our study demonstrates the effectiveness of pretrained models for peptide analysis and provides a valuable tool for predicting antifungal peptide activity and potentially other peptide properties.