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Extending Bayesian Classification to Predict Phase Transition in Biopolymer

Author(s): Charu Kathuria, Deepti Mehrotra* and Navnit Kumar Misra

Pp: 94-113 (20)

DOI: 10.2174/9798898815493126040008

* (Excluding Mailing and Handling)

Abstract

Machine learning is an essential tool for predicting systems' behavior. Many machine learning algorithms have recently been used to predict the system's changing behavioral pattern. Phase transition is an exciting phenomenon in physics, observed in many molecules and systems, where a sharp structural change occurs with a minor change in an environment like pressure or temperature. It is a significant process to understand the structure of a molecule. The Bayesian algorithm has diverse applications, and in this chapter, its usage is incorporated with the approach of oneclass classification to predict the phase transition in biopolymers. In this study, the algorithm proposed predicts the phase transition of L-alanine polypeptide. This algorithm corroborates the detection of transition parameters or changepoints in temperature-dependent significant frequencies with experimental results. The observed variation of Amide frequencies of the polypeptide is used to confirm the occurrence of a phase transition that causes structural change with the effect of temperature change. 


Keywords: Amide frequencies, Change-point, Infrared spectroscopy, Machine learning, Naïve Bayes, One-class classification, Phase transition, Probability, Temperature variability.