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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2017

Machine learning in computational biology to accelerate high-throughput protein expression.

Anand Sastry, Jonathan Monk, Hanna Tegel, Mathias Uhlen, Bernhard O Palsson, Johan Rockberg, Elizabeth Brunk

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Article in Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 27% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Deciphering the determinants of recombinant protein expression across the human secretome.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  4. Machine and Deep Learning for Prediction of Subcellular Localization.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Anand SastryDepartment of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA.
Jonathan MonkDepartment of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA.
Hanna TegelKTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Proteomics and Nanobiotechnology, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden.
Mathias UhlenKTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Proteomics and Nanobiotechnology, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden.
Bernhard O PalssonDepartment of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA.
Johan RockbergKTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Proteomics and Nanobiotechnology, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden.
Elizabeth BrunkDepartment of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA.
University of California, San Diego · USKTH Royal Institute of Technology · SENovo Nordisk Foundation · DKTechnical University of Denmark · DK

Funding

GENOMICALLY BASED MODELS FOR ANTIBIOTIC DEVELOPMENTR01GM057089 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI PALSSON, BERNHARD O · 1998 to 2021
$6.9M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM057089
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

motivationThe Human Protein Atlas (HPA) enables the simultaneous characterization of thousands of proteins across various tissues to pinpoint their spatial location in the human body. This has been achieved through transcriptomics and high-throughput immunohistochemistry-based approaches, where over 40 000 unique human protein fragments have been expressed in E. coli. These datasets enable quantitative tracking of entire cellular proteomes and present new avenues for understanding molecular-level properties influencing expression and solubility.

resultsCombining computational biology and machine learning identifies protein properties that hinder the HPA high-throughput antibody production pipeline. We predict protein expression and solubility with accuracies of 70% and 80%, respectively, based on a subset of key properties (aromaticity, hydropathy and isoelectric point). We guide the selection of protein fragments based on these characteristics to optimize high-throughput experimentation. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: We present the machine learning workflow as a series of IPython notebooks hosted on GitHub (https://github.com/SBRG/Protein_ML). The workflow can be used as a template for analysis of further expression and solubility datasets. CONTACT: ebrunk@ucsd.edu or johanr@biotech.kth.se. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

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Gene Expression RegulationMachine LearningComputational BiologyEscherichia coliHumansOrgan SpecificityProteomeSolubilityProteome

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PMID28398465
PMCPMC5870730
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