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ArticleBriefings in bioinformatics2021

On the critical review of five machine learning-based algorithms for predicting protein stability changes upon mutation.

Castrense Savojardo, Pier Luigi Martelli, Rita Casadio, Piero Fariselli

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Article in Briefings in bioinformatics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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Castrense SavojardoBiocomputing Group, Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Pier Luigi MartelliBiocomputing Group, Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Rita CasadioBiocomputing Group, Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Piero FariselliDepartment of Medical Sciences, University of Torino, Torino, Italy.

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Abstract

A review, recently published in this journal by Fang (2019), showed that methods trained for the prediction of protein stability changes upon mutation have a very critical bias: they neglect that a protein variation (A- > B) and its reverse (B- > A) must have the opposite value of the free energy difference (ΔΔGAB = - ΔΔGBA). In this letter, we complement the Fang's paper presenting a more general view of the problem. In particular, a machine learning-based method, published in 2015 (INPS), addressed the bias issue directly. We include the analysis of the missing method, showing that INPS is nearly insensitive to the addressed problem.

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AlgorithmsMachine LearningMutationProtein Stability

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PMID31885042

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