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DISOPRED3: Precise disordered region predictions with annotated protein binding activity

Jones, DT; Cozzetto, D; (2014) DISOPRED3: Precise disordered region predictions with annotated protein binding activity. Bioinformatics , 31 (6) 10.1093/bioinformatics/btu744. Green open access

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Abstract

Motivation: A sizeable fraction of eukaryotic proteins contain intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs), which act in unfolded states or by undergoing transitions between structured and unstructured conformations. Over time, sequence-based classifiers of IDRs have become fairly accurate and currently a major challenge is linking IDRs to their biological roles from the molecular to the systems level. Results: We describe DISOPRED3, which extends its predecessor with new modules to predict IDRs and protein binding sites within them. Based on recent CASP evaluation results, DISOPRED3 can be regarded as state of the art in the identification of IDRs, and our self-assessment shows that it significantly improves over DISOPRED2 because its predictions are more specific across the whole board and more sensitive to IDRs longer than 20 amino acids. Predicted IDRs are annotated as protein binding through a novel SVM-based classifier, which uses profile data and additional sequence-derived features. Based on benchmarking experiments with full cross-validation, we show that this predictor generates precise assignments of disordered protein binding regions and that it compares well with other publicly available tools. Availability: http://bioinf.cs.ucl.ac.uk/disopred/

Type: Article
Title: DISOPRED3: Precise disordered region predictions with annotated protein binding activity
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btu744
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btu744
Language: English
Additional information: © The Author(s) 2014. Published by Oxford University Press. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1456106
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