Characterizing Amino Acid Variations of Scavenger Receptors by Class Information Gain

Conserved amino acids in sequences, which may be discovered as patterns across or along sequences, reveal functional domains within proteins. Conversely, less conserved amino acid sequences reveal areas of evolutionary divergence. Traditional protein classification trains patterns using pre-defined class labels (i.e. information about the input sequences such as gene name or family) in order to predict the class of novel sequences. However, …