Improved prediction of signal peptides: SignalP 3.0. Export

@article{Bendtsen2004, abstract = {We describe improvements of the currently most popular method for prediction of classically secreted proteins, SignalP. SignalP consists of two different predictors based on neural network and hidden Markov model algorithms, where both components have been updated. Motivated by the idea that the cleavage site position and the amino acid composition of the signal peptide are correlated, new features have been included as input to the neural network. This addition, combined with a thorough error-correction of a new data set, have improved the performance of the predictor significantly over SignalP version 2. In version 3, correctness of the cleavage site predictions has increased notably for all three organism groups, eukaryotes, Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria. The accuracy of cleavage site prediction has increased in the range 6-17\% over the previous version, whereas the signal peptide discrimination improvement is mainly due to the elimination of false-positive predictions, as well as the introduction of a new discrimination score for the neural network. The new method has been benchmarked against other available methods. Predictions can be made at the publicly available web server}, address = {Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, BioCentrum-DTU, Building 208, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 Lyngby, Denmark.}, author = {Bendtsen, J. D. and Nielsen, H. and von Heijne, G. and Brunak, S.}, citeulike-article-id = {3352773}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmb.2004.05.028}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0022-2836(04)00597-2}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15223320}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=15223320}, day = {16}, doi = {10.1016/j.jmb.2004.05.028}, issn = {0022-2836}, journal = {Journal of molecular biology}, keywords = {bioinformatics}, month = {July}, number = {4}, pages = {783--795}, posted-at = {2009-10-29 22:01:10}, priority = {2}, title = {Improved prediction of signal peptides: SignalP 3.0.}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmb.2004.05.028}, volume = {340}, year = {2004} }

TY - JOUR ID - Bendtsen2004 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3352773 N2 - We describe improvements of the currently most popular method for prediction of classically secreted proteins, SignalP. SignalP consists of two different predictors based on neural network and hidden Markov model algorithms, where both components have been updated. Motivated by the idea that the cleavage site position and the amino acid composition of the signal peptide are correlated, new features have been included as input to the neural network. This addition, combined with a thorough error-correction of a new data set, have improved the performance of the predictor significantly over SignalP version 2. In version 3, correctness of the cleavage site predictions has increased notably for all three organism groups, eukaryotes, Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria. The accuracy of cleavage site prediction has increased in the range 6-17% over the previous version, whereas the signal peptide discrimination improvement is mainly due to the elimination of false-positive predictions, as well as the introduction of a new discrimination score for the neural network. The new method has been benchmarked against other available methods. Predictions can be made at the publicly available web server IS - 4 JF - Journal of molecular biology SN - 0022-2836 AD - Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, BioCentrum-DTU, Building 208, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 Lyngby, Denmark. EP - 795 TI - Improved prediction of signal peptides: SignalP 3.0. VL - 340 SP - 783 KW - bioinformatics AU - Bendtsen, JD AU - Nielsen, H AU - von Heijne, G AU - Brunak, S PY - 2004/07/16/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmb.2004.05.028 ER -