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ArticleNucleic acids research2003

PSORT-B: Improving protein subcellular localization prediction for Gram-negative bacteria.

Jennifer L Gardy, Cory Spencer, Ke Wang, Martin Ester, Gábor E Tusnády, István Simon, Sujun Hua, Katalin deFays, Christophe Lambert, Kenta Nakai and 1 more

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2003. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 178 papers.

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11 authors.

Jennifer L GardyDepartment of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada V5A 1S6.
Cory Spencer
Ke Wang
Martin Ester
Gábor E Tusnády
István Simon
Sujun Hua
Katalin deFays
Christophe Lambert
Kenta Nakai
Fiona S L Brinkman

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Automated prediction of bacterial protein subcellular localization is an important tool for genome annotation and drug discovery. PSORT has been one of the most widely used computational methods for such bacterial protein analysis; however, it has not been updated since it was introduced in 1991. In addition, neither PSORT nor any of the other computational methods available make predictions for all five of the localization sites characteristic of Gram-negative bacteria. Here we present PSORT-B, an updated version of PSORT for Gram-negative bacteria, which is available as a web-based application at http://www.psort.org. PSORT-B examines a given protein sequence for amino acid composition, similarity to proteins of known localization, presence of a signal peptide, transmembrane alpha-helices and motifs corresponding to specific localizations. A probabilistic method integrates these analyses, returning a list of five possible localization sites with associated probability scores. PSORT-B, designed to favor high precision (specificity) over high recall (sensitivity), attained an overall precision of 97% and recall of 75% in 5-fold cross-validation tests, using a dataset we developed of 1443 proteins of experimentally known localization. This dataset, the largest of its kind, is freely available, along with the PSORT-B source code (under GNU General Public License).

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SoftwareBacterial ProteinsDatabases, ProteinGram-Negative BacteriaInternetMembrane ProteinsProtein Sorting SignalsProtein Structure, SecondaryReproducibility of ResultsSequence Analysis, ProteinBacterial ProteinsMembrane ProteinsProtein Sorting Signals

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PMID12824378
PMCPMC169008

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