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A Protocol for Computer-Based Protein Structure and Function Prediction

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Forecasting residue-residue contact prediction accuracy.

P P Wozniak¹, B M Konopka¹, J Xu²

¹Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Fundamental Problems of Technology, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wroclaw, Poland.

Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)

|October 17, 2017

Summary

This study introduces a regression model to predict the accuracy of residue-residue contact predictions for proteins. This method improves upon Direct Coupling Analysis (DCA) by providing reliable accuracy estimates for individual proteins.

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Computational Biology
Bioinformatics
Structural Biology

Background:

Current residue-residue contact prediction methods, primarily based on Direct Coupling Analysis (DCA) of multiple sequence alignments (MSAs), achieve an average accuracy of approximately 40% for the top predicted contacts.
The lack of reliable accuracy estimates for individual proteins hinders the effective use of these predictions in experimental research.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a regression model capable of forecasting the accuracy of residue-residue contact predictions for individual proteins.
To provide end-users with a quantitative measure of confidence in predicted contacts to guide experimental validation.

Main Methods:

A regression model was designed using parameters describing the MSA, predicted secondary structure, predicted solvent accessibility, and contact prediction scores.
Two DCA methods, gplmDCA and PSICOV, were employed for contact prediction within the model development framework.

Main Results:

The developed regression model achieved an average error of 7 percentage points in forecasting contact prediction accuracy.
The model demonstrated applicability to meta-methods, as validated using RaptorX.

Conclusions:

The developed model offers a significant improvement by providing accurate, protein-specific confidence scores for residue-residue contact predictions.
This tool enhances the utility of computational predictions in guiding experimental protein research by quantifying prediction reliability.