Type Method Cluster Reference Year
1BLOSUM50 matrix2,3,4,5,6,8,10,12,15,18Simplified amino acid alphabets for protein fold recognition and implications for folding2000
2BLOSUM40 matrix2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19Simplifying amino acid alphabets by means of a branch and bound algorithm and substitution matrices2002
3artificial immune system(AIS)6,6,6,7,7,8,8,8,8,9Optimizing amino acid groupings for GPCR classification2008
4The maximum information gain2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14Optimized Representations and Maximal Information in Proteins2000
5Secondary-structure 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,15,16,17,18,19Representation of Protein-Sequence Information by Amino Acid Subalphabet2004
6Structure-Derived Matrix(SDM)2,3,4,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,16,17,19Structure-derived substitution matrices for alignment of distantly related sequences2000
7GONNET matrix2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,17Structure-derived substitution matrices for alignment of distantly related sequences2000
8 Miyazawa Jernigan (MJ) matrix2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16Simplified amino acid alphabets based on deviation of conditional probability from random background2002
9BLOSUM50 matrix2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16Simplified amino acid alphabets based on deviation of conditional probability from random background2002
10Genetic algorithm5Accuracy of Sequence Alignment and Fold Assessment Using Reduced Amino Acid Alphabets2006
11Boltzmann relation/iteration2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,14An iterative method for extracting energy-like quantities from protein structures1996
12Distance matrix2,4,7,12Distance-dependent classification of amino acids by information theory2010
13Distance matrix2,3,5,8,12Distance-dependent classification of amino acids by information theory2010
14 Miyazawa Jernigan (MJ) matrix4,8Amino acid partitioning using a Fiedler vector model2007
15Protein blocks5,8,9,11,13A reduced amino acid alphabet for understanding and designing protein adaptation to mutation2007
16Hierarchical clustering2,3,5,7,8,11,14A reduced amino acid alphabet for understanding and designing protein adaptation to mutation.2007
17Clustering analysis 4,4,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,6An information-theoretic classification of amino acids for the assessment of interfaces in protein-protein docking.2013
18Physical-chemical property3,4,19Reduced amino acid alphabet is sufficient to accurately recognize intrinsically disordered protein.2004
19Maximized mutual information2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19Amino acid alphabet reduction preserves fold information contained in contact interactions in proteins 2015
20variance maximization2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,13,14,15,16,17,18,19Grouping of Amino Acid Types and Extraction of Amino Acid Properties from Multiple Sequence Alignments Using Variance Maximization 2005
21Extended Compact Genetic Algorithm(ECGA)2,3,4,5 Automated Alphabet Reduction for Protein Datasets 2009
22Extended Compact Genetic Algorithm(ECGA)2,3,4Automated Alphabet Reduction for Protein Datasets2009
23Extended Compact Genetic Algorithm(ECGA)2,3,4,5,7,9,11Automated Alphabet Reduction for Protein Datasets.2009
24Physical-chemical property7,9,11 Automated Alphabet Reduction for Protein Datasets 2009
25 Extended compact genetic algorithm(ECGA)2,3,4,5 Automated Alphabet Reduction for Protein Datasets 2009
26Extended Compact Genetic Algorithm(ECGA)2,3,3,4Automated Alphabet Reduction for Protein Datasets2009
27Extended Compact Genetic Algorithm(ECGA)2,3,4,5Automated Alphabet Reduction for Protein Datasets.2009
28 Miyazawa and Jernigan (MJ) matrix2,3,5,5A computational approach to simplifying the protein folding alphabet1999
29JTT rate matrix2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19On Reduced Amino Acid Alphabets for Phylogenetic Inference2007
30Grantham Distance Matrix2,3,4,5,5,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19On Reduced Amino Acid Alphabets for Phylogenetic Inference2007
31hierarchical clustering 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,18,19Grouping of amino acids and recognition of protein structurally conserved regions by reduced alphabets of amino acids.2007
32Hierarchical clustering 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19Grouping of amino acids and recognition of protein structurally conserved regions by reduced alphabets of amino acids 2007
33Hierarchical clustering 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19Grouping of amino acids and recognition of protein structurally conserved regions by reduced alphabets of amino acids.2007
34Unweighted Pair-Group Method with Arithmetic (UPGMA)2,3,4,5,6,7,8,10,11,12,14,15,16,18,19Grouping of amino acids and recognition of protein structurally conserved regions by reduced alphabets of amino acids.2007
35 Dynamic clustering 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18Grouping of amino acids and recognition of protein structurally conserved regions by reduced alphabets of amino acids.2007
36Information theory8Conformational Properties of Amino Acid Residues in Globular Proteins.1976
37Physical-chemical property6Universally Conserved Positions in Protein Folds:Reading Evolutionary Signals about Stability, Folding Kinetics and Function.1999
38BLOSUM62 & Heuristic Monte Carlo (MC) method2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,15,15,16,17,18,19Reduction of protein seqence complexity by residue grouping 2003
39 Chemistry properties3,4,4,8,10Unearthing the Root of Amino Acid Similarity2013
40Protein blocks4,8,9,10,10,13Unearthing the Root of Amino Acid Similarity2013
41Sequence alignments5,5,6,10,10,10,10,10,13,16Unearthing the Root of Amino Acid Similarity2013
42Structure alignments5,5,6,12,15,17Unearthing the Root of Amino Acid Similarity2013
43Contact potential5,5,5,5Unearthing the Root of Amino Acid Similarity2013
44Miyazawa Jernigan (MJ) & BLOSUM50& BLOSUM62 matrix13,14,19iDNA-Prot dis: Identifying DNA-Binding Proteins by Incorporating Amino Acid Distance-Pairs and Reduced Alphabet Profile into the General Pseudo Prediction of ketoacyl synthase family using reduced amino acid alphabets 2014
45Contact potential4,7,7 Contact potential that recognizes the correct folding of globular proteins1992
46 Miyazawa Jernigan (MJ) matrix and contact potential2,5,5Amino acid classes and the protein folding problem.2001
47Physical-chemical property6Prediction of the subcellular location of apoptosis proteins2007
48K-means8Deep Learning Improves Antimicrobial Peptide Recognition.2018
49BLOSUM62 and Heuristic Monte Carlo (MC) 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19Reduction of protein seqence complexity by residue grouping 2003
50Dynamic Programming Alignments4,10Automatic generation of primary sequence patterns from sets of related protein sequences.1990
51Unweighted variable group2,4,5,6,7,8,10,13,14,15,16,17,18,19Relations between Chemical Structure and Biological Activity in Peptides 1966
52 The Point Accepted Mutation(PAM )matrix2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19 A new criterion and method for amino acid classification2004
53Whelan and Goldman(WAG )matrix2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19 A new criterion and method for amino acid classification2004
54Physical-chemical property3,3,3,3,3,3,3PROFEAT:a web server for computing structural and physicochemical features of proteins and peptides from amino acid sequence 2006
55 hydrophobic and polar (HP) model4Chaos game representation of protein sequences based on the detailed HP model and their multifractal and correlation analyses2004
56Unweighted pair group 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,16,18,19Solving the protein sequence metric problem2004
57Unweighted pair group 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19Solving the protein sequence metric problem2004
58Unweighted pair group method 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19Solving the protein sequence metric problem2004
59Unweighted pair group method 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19Solving the protein sequence metric problem2004
60Particle swarm optimization (PSO)5,6,8Improved prediction of residue flexibility by embedding optimized amino acid grouping into RSA-based linear models.2014
61Euclidean distance3,3,4A New Approach to Clustering the Amino Acids1996
62Physical-chemical property4Predicting Disordered Regions in Proteins Based on Decision Trees of Reduced Amino Acid Composition2006
63Miyazawa Jernigan (MJ) matrix2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,18,19A general clustering approach with application to the Miyazawa-Jernigan potentials for amino acids2004
64Chemistry space5 Testing for adaptive signatures of amino acid alphabet evolution using chemistry space2014
65Hierarchical clustering2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10Helix-helix packing and interfacial pairwise interactions of residues in membrane proteins 2001
66Hierachical clustering2,3,5,6,7,10,11,13,15,16,18Simplicial edge representation of protein structures and alpha contact potential with con?dence measure2008
67Fuzzy clustering technique and matrices2,4,5,15,19Use of fuzzy clustering technique and matrices to classify amino acids and its impact to Chou's pseudo amino acid composition.2009
68Fuzzy clustering technique and matrices2,3,5,7,14,19Use of fuzzy clustering technique and matrices to classify amino acids and its impact to Chou's pseudo amino acid composition.2009
69Fuzzy clustering technique and matrices2,4,5,14,19Use of fuzzy clustering technique and matrices to classify amino acids and its impact to Chou's pseudo amino acid composition.2009
70Fuzzy clustering technique and matrices5,7,8,19Use of fuzzy clustering technique and matrices to classify amino acids and its impact to Chou's pseudo amino acid composition.2009
71Fuzzy clustering technique and matrices5,10,13,14,16,19Use of fuzzy clustering technique and matrices to classify amino acids and its impact to Chou's pseudo amino acid composition.2009
72Fuzzy clustering technique and matrices2,3,5,7,14,19Use of fuzzy clustering technique and matrices to classify amino acids and its impact to Chou's pseudo amino acid composition.2009
73Fuzzy clustering technique and matrices6,10,13,14,17,19Use of fuzzy clustering technique and matrices to classify amino acids and its impact to Chou's pseudo amino acid composition.2009
74Fuzzy clustering technique and matrices5,11,15,18,19Use of fuzzy clustering technique and matrices to classify amino acids and its impact to Chou's pseudo amino acid composition.2009