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. 2021 Feb 28;49(10):e60. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkab122

Table 1.

Feature descriptors calculated by iLearnPlus for protein sequences

Descriptor group Descriptor (abbreviation) Reference
Amino acid composition Amino acid composition (AAC) (37)
Enhanced amino acid composition (EAAC) (14,15)
Composition of k-spaced amino acid pairs (CKSAAP) (38,39)
Kmer (dipeptides and tripeptides) composition (DPC and TPC) (37,40)
Dipeptide deviation from expected mean (DDE) (40)
Composition (CTDC) (41–45)
Transition (CTDT) (41–45)
Distribution (CTDD) (41–45)
Conjoint triad (CTriad) (46)
Conjoint k-spaced Triad (KSCTriad) (14,15)
Adaptive skip dipeptide composition (ASDC) (47)
PseAAC of distance-pairs and reduced alphabet (DistancePair) (20,48)
Grouped amino acid composition Grouped amino acid composition (GAAC) (14,15)
Grouped enhanced amino acid composition (GEAAC) (14,15)
Composition of k-spaced amino acid group pairs (CKSAAGP) (14,15)
Grouped dipeptide composition (GDPC) (14,15)
Grouped tripeptide composition (GTPC) (14,15)
Autocorrelation Moran (Moran) (49,50)
Geary (Geary) (51)
Normalized Moreau-Broto (NMBroto) (52)
Auto covariance (AC) (53–55)
Cross covariance (CC) (53–55)
Auto-cross covariance (ACC) (53–55)
Quasi-sequence-order Sequence-order-coupling number (SOCNumber) (56–58)
Quasi-sequence-order descriptors (QSOrder) (56–58)
Pseudo-amino acid composition Pseudo-amino acid composition (PAAC) (59,60)
Amphiphilic PAAC (APAAC) (59,60)
Pseudo K-tuple reduced amino acids composition (PseKRAAC_type 1 to type 16) (61)
Residue composition Binary - 20bit (binary) (62,63)
Binary - 6bit (binary_6bit) (20,64)
Binary - 5bit (binary_5bit_type 1 and type 2) (20,65)
Binary - 3bit (binary_3bit_type 1 to type 7) (47)
Learn from alignments (AESNN3) (20,66)
Overlapping property features - 10 bit (OPF_10bit) (47)
Overlapping property features - 7 bit (OPF_7bit type 1 to type 3) (47)
Physicochemical property AAIndex (AAIndex) (67)
BLOSUM matrix BLOSUM62 (BLOSUM62) (68)
Z-Scale index Z-Scale (Zscale) (69)
Similarity-based descriptor K-nearest neighbor (KNN) (70)