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ArticleBMC bioinformatics2026

Predicting molecular recognition features in protein sequences with MoRFchibi 2.0.

Nawar Malhis, Jörg Gsponer

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Article in BMC bioinformatics, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 authors.

Nawar MalhisMichael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada. nmalhis@msl.ubc.ca.
Jörg GsponerMichael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Molecular Recognition Features (MoRFs) are segments within disordered protein regions (IDRs) that undergo a disorder-to-order transition upon binding to their partners. Identifying MoRFs remains a significant challenge. This paper introduces MoRFchibi 2.0, a specialized prediction tool designed to identify the locations of MoRFs within protein sequences. Our results show that MoRFchibi 2.0 outperforms all existing MoRF and general predictors of protein-binding sites within IDRs, including the top-performing models from the Critical Assessment of protein Intrinsic Disorder (CAID) rounds 1, 2, and 3. Remarkably, MoRFchibi 2.0 surpasses predictors that utilize AlphaFold data and state-of-the-art protein language models, achieving superior ROC and Precision-Recall curves and higher success rates. MoRFchibi 2.0 generates output scores using an ensemble of logistic regression convolutional neural network models normalized for the priors in the training data, making them individually interpretable and compatible with other tools utilizing the same scoring framework.

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Computational BiologyIntrinsically Disordered ProteinsProteinsSequence Analysis, ProteinSoftwareAmino Acid SequenceBinding SitesConvolutional Neural NetworksPrediction AlgorithmsIntrinsically Disordered ProteinsProteinsComputational BiologyConvolutional Neural Network (CNN)Intrinsically disordered protein regions (IDRs)Machine learningMolecular recognition features (MoRFs)Reverse Bayes Rule

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PMID42288727
PMCPMC13505122

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