A statistical model of protein sequence similarity and function similarity reveals overly-specific function predictions.

BACKGROUND:Predicting protein function from primary sequence is an important open problem in modern biology. Not only are there many thousands of proteins of unknown function, current approaches for predicting function must be improved upon. One problem in particular is overly-specific function pred...

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Main Authors: Brenton Louie, Roger Higdon, Eugene Kolker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-10-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2760442?pdf=render