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Table 2 Description of the features used in the experiment

From: Deafness gene screening based on a multilevel cascaded BPNN model

Type

Feature

Feature description

Tools

Inherent feature

CDS size

Gene coding sequence length

Python 3.7

 

Protein size

Amino acid length

 

CodonW

T3s, C3s,

Relative synonymous codon usage of

CodonW [43]

 

A3s, G3s

T, C, A, and G at the 3rd position

 
 

CAI

Codon adaptation index

 
 

CBI

Codon bias index

 
 

Fop

Frequency of optimal codons

 
 

Nc

Effective number of codons

 
 

GC3s

GC of silent 3rd codon posit

 
 

GC

GC content of gene

 
 

L_sym

Number of synonymous codons

 
 

Gravy

Hydrophobicity of protein

 
 

Aromo

Aromaticity of protein

 

Amino acid usage frequency

Amino acid

A,R,D,C,Q,E,G,H,I,N,L,K,M,F,P,S,T,W,Y,V

Python 3.7

 

Rare_aa_ratio

Frequency of rare amino acids

 
 

Close_aa_ratio

Number of codons 3rd stop codon mutation

 

Physicochemical properties of amino acids

M_weight

Molecular weight

Pepstats [44]

 

I_Point

Isoelectric point

 
 

Tiny

(A + C + G + S + T)

 
 

Small

(A + B + C + D + G + N + P + S + T + V)

 
 

Aliphatic

(A + I + L + V)

 
 

Aromatic

(F + H + W + Y)

 
 

Nonpolar

(A + C + F + G + I + L + M + P + V + W + Y)

 
 

Polar

(D + E + H + K + N + Q + R + S + T + Z)

 
 

Charged

(B + D + E + H + K + R + Z)

 
 

Basic

(H + K + R)

 
 

Acidic

(B + D + E + Z)

 
 

A_R Weight

Average Residue Weight

 

Transmembrane helix

ExpAA

Exp number of AAs in TMHs

TMHMM3 [45]

 

First60

Exp number, first 60 AAs

 
 

PredHel

Total prob of N-in

 

Hurst

Hurst

Hurst index

R package [46]

Information Entropy

Shannon Entropy

quantifies the average information content of the gene sequence from the distribution of symbols

Python 3.7

 

Mutual Information

measures the information shared by two random variables

Python 3.7

 

Kullback–Leibler divergence

measure the similarity of two probability distributions

Python 3.7

 

Cross Entropy

measure the difference information between two probability distributions

Python 3.7