AUCpreD: proteome-level protein disorder prediction by AUC-maximized deep convolutional neural fields.

Journal: Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)
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Abstract

MOTIVATION: Protein intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) play an important role in many biological processes. Two key properties of IDRs are (i) the occurrence is proteome-wide and (ii) the ratio of disordered residues is about 6%, which makes it challenging to accurately predict IDRs. Most IDR prediction methods use sequence profile to improve accuracy, which prevents its application to proteome-wide prediction since it is time-consuming to generate sequence profiles. On the other hand, the methods without using sequence profile fare much worse than using sequence profile.

Authors

  • Sheng Wang
    Intensive Care Medical Center, Tongji Hospital, School of Medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200065, People's Republic of China.
  • Jianzhu Ma
    Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, 6045 S. Kenwood Ave. Chicago, Illinois 60637 USA.
  • Jinbo Xu
    Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60615, USA.