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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2015

Computational identification of MoRFs in protein sequences.

Nawar Malhis, Jörg Gsponer

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Nawar MalhisCentre for High-Throughput Biology and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada.
Jörg GsponerCentre for High-Throughput Biology and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada Centre for High-Throughput Biology and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada.

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Abstract

motivationIntrinsically disordered regions of proteins play an essential role in the regulation of various biological processes. Key to their regulatory function is the binding of molecular recognition features (MoRFs) to globular protein domains in a process known as a disorder-to-order transition. Predicting the location of MoRFs in protein sequences with high accuracy remains an important computational challenge.

methodIn this study, we introduce MoRFCHiBi, a new computational approach for fast and accurate prediction of MoRFs in protein sequences. MoRFCHiBi combines the outcomes of two support vector machine (SVM) models that take advantage of two different kernels with high noise tolerance. The first, SVMS, is designed to extract maximal information from the general contrast in amino acid compositions between MoRFs, their surrounding regions (Flanks), and the remainders of the sequences. The second, SVMT, is used to identify similarities between regions in a query sequence and MoRFs of the training set.

resultsWe evaluated the performance of our predictor by comparing its results with those of two currently available MoRF predictors, MoRFpred and ANCHOR. Using three test sets that have previously been collected and used to evaluate MoRFpred and ANCHOR, we demonstrate that MoRFCHiBi outperforms the other predictors with respect to different evaluation metrics. In addition, MoRFCHiBi is downloadable and fast, which makes it useful as a component in other computational prediction tools. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: http://www.chibi.ubc.ca/morf/.

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SoftwareAlgorithmsAmino AcidsComputational BiologyIntrinsically Disordered ProteinsProtein Structure, TertiarySequence Analysis, ProteinSupport Vector MachineAmino AcidsIntrinsically Disordered Proteins

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PMID25637562
PMCPMC4443681

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