用骨架原子构图+图神经网络,提升抗菌肽分类准确率
SGAC: A Graph Neural Network Framework for Imbalanced and Structure-Aware AMP Classification
- 以C α原子构建肽骨架图,捕捉三维空间结构特征
- 在多个数据集上达到当前最好性能,准确率超基线10%以上
- 适合研究抗菌肽、蛋白质结构与不平衡分类的学者
从宏基因组测序得到的海量肽中识别抗菌肽(AMPs)是应对抗生素耐药性的重要方向。现有方法多依赖序列信息,忽略对准确识别至关重要的空间结构。虽有基于图的方法尝试引入结构信息,但通常构建残基或原子级图,引入冗余细节并增加复杂度。此外,已知AMP数量少、非AMP数量多,严重制约预测效果。为此,我们采用轻量级OmegaFold预测肽的三维结构,仅用C α原子构建肽图以表征其主链几何与空间拓扑。在此基础上,提出空间图神经网络分类器SGAC,利用GNN提取结构特征并生成判别性图表示。为缓解类别不平衡,SGAC引入加权对比学习,通过自适应权重聚类结构相似肽并分离差异肽;同时使用加权伪标签蒸馏,为未标注样本生成高置信度伪标签,实现平衡且一致的表示学习。在公开的AMP与非AMP数据集上的实验表明,SGAC显著优于现有基线,达到当前最优性能。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Classifying Antimicrobial Peptides (AMPs) from the vast collection of peptides derived from metagenomic sequencing offers a promising avenue for combating antibiotic resistance. However, most existing AMP classification methods rely primarily on sequence-based representations and fail to capture the spatial structural information critical for accurate identification. Although recent graph-based approaches attempt to incorporate structural information, they typically construct residue- or atom-level graphs that introduce redundant atomic details and increase structural complexity. Furthermore, the class imbalance between the small number of known AMPs and the abundant non-AMPs significantly hinders predictive performance. To address these challenges, we employ lightweight OmegaFold to predict the three-dimensional structures of peptides and construct peptide graphs using C α atoms to capture their backbone geometry and spatial topology. Building on this representation, we propose the Spatial GNN-based AMP Classifier (SGAC), a novel framework that leverages Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to extract structural features and generate discriminative graph representations. To handle class imbalance, SGAC incorporates Weight-enhanced Contrastive Learning to cluster structurally similar peptides and separate dissimilar ones through adaptive weighting, and applies Weight-enhanced Pseudo-label Distillation to generate high-confidence pseudo labels for unlabeled samples, achieving balanced and consistent representation learning. Experiments on publicly available AMP and non-AMP datasets demonstrate that SGAC significantly achieves state-of-the-art performance compared to baselines.
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