AI4AVP: an Antiviral Peptides Predictor in Deep Learning Approach with Generative Adversarial Network Data Augmentation

Overview

Journal Bioinform Adv

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty Biology

Date 2023 Jan 26

PMID 36699402

Authors

Tzu-Tang Lin

Yih-Yun Sun

Ching-Tien Wang

Wen-Chih Cheng

I-Hsuan Lu

Chung-Yen Lin

Shu-Hwa Chen

Affiliations

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Abstract

Motivation: Antiviral peptides (AVPs) from various sources suggest the possibility of developing peptide drugs for treating viral diseases. Because of the increasing number of identified AVPs and the advances in deep learning theory, it is reasonable to experiment with peptide drug design using methods.

Results: We collected the most up-to-date AVPs and used deep learning to construct a sequence-based binary classifier. A generative adversarial network was employed to augment the number of AVPs in the positive training dataset and enable our deep learning convolutional neural network (CNN) model to learn from the negative dataset. Our classifier outperformed other state-of-the-art classifiers when using the testing dataset. We have placed the trained classifiers on a user-friendly web server, AI4AVP, for the research community.

Availability And Implementation: AI4AVP is freely accessible at http://axp.iis.sinica.edu.tw/AI4AVP/; codes and datasets for the peptide GAN and the AVP predictor CNN are available at https://github.com/lsbnb/amp_gan and https://github.com/LinTzuTang/AI4AVP_predictor.

Supplementary Information: Supplementary data are available at online.

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