A novel method for high accuracy sumoylation site prediction from protein sequences.

Jialin Xu1, Yun He, Boqin Qiang

  • 1The Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Ministry of Education, China, Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China. jialinx@gmail.com

BMC Bioinformatics
|January 9, 2008
PubMed
Summary

This study introduces SUMOpre, a novel statistical method for predicting protein sumoylation sites. SUMOpre accurately identifies these crucial modification sites, aiding in understanding gene expression and genomic stability.

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