Improved disorder prediction by combination of orthogonal approaches.

Disordered proteins are highly abundant in regulatory processes such as transcription and cell-signaling. Different methods have been developed to predict protein disorder often focusing on different types of disordered regions. Here, we present MD, a novel META-Disorder prediction method that molds...

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Published in:PLoS ONE
Main Authors: Avner Schlessinger, Marco Punta, Guy Yachdav, Laszlo Kajan, Burkhard Rost
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-01-01
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2635965?pdf=render
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Summary:Disordered proteins are highly abundant in regulatory processes such as transcription and cell-signaling. Different methods have been developed to predict protein disorder often focusing on different types of disordered regions. Here, we present MD, a novel META-Disorder prediction method that molds various sources of information predominantly obtained from orthogonal prediction methods, to significantly improve in performance over its constituents. In sustained cross-validation, MD not only outperforms its origins, but it also compares favorably to other state-of-the-art prediction methods in a variety of tests that we applied.http://www.rostlab.org/services/md/
ISSN:1932-6203