30 research outputs found
New encouraging developments in contact prediction: Assessment of the CASP11 results
This article provides a report on the state-of-the-art in the prediction of intra-molecular residue-residue contacts in proteins
based on the assessment of the predictions submitted to the CASP11 experiment. The assessment emphasis is placed on the
accuracy in predicting long-range contacts. Twenty-nine groups participated in contact prediction in CASP11. At least eight
of them used the recently developed evolutionary coupling techniques, with the top group (CONSIP2) reaching precision of
27% on target proteins that could not be modeled by homology. This result indicates a breakthrough in the development of
methods based on the correlated mutation approach. Successful prediction of contacts was shown to be practically helpful
in modeling three-dimensional structures; in particular target T0806 was modeled exceedingly well with accuracy not yet
seen for ab initio targets of this size (>250 residues
Assessment of protein disorder region predictions in CASP10
A systematic analysis of intrinsic disorder in proteins
started at the turn of the century1–4 and still remains a
hot research topic.5 Only this year several papers covering
general aspects of protein disorder have been published5–
9 and the discussion on the fundamental
principles of disorder continues to unfold.10,11 PubMed
search with the keywords “intrinsically disordered protein
2012” and “intrinsically disordered protein 2013”
returned 525 and 305 entries, respectively (as of April
2013). The number of experimentally verified intrinsically
disordered proteins and regions is steadily increasing.
The DisProt database12 currently contains
annotations for 684 intrinsically disordered proteins,
1513 disordered regions, and describes 38 different biological
functions associated with disordered regions. The
more recently established IDEAL database also has a
number of useful annotations on disordered proteins.13
Such a high interest in this area of research triggered
rapid development of computational methods for prediction
of the location of disordered regions in proteins. The
recently published reviews and assessment papers14–18
altogether provide a comprehensive analysis of more than
fifty disorder prediction methods. An independent assessment
of the protein disorder methods within the scope of CASP started in 2002 and is now already in its sixth
round.18–22 This study analyzes the results obtained by
the 28 disorder prediction groups participating in CASP10
Assessment of chemical-crosslink-assisted protein structure modeling in CASP13
International audienceWith the advance of experimental procedures obtaining chemical crosslinking information is becoming a fast and routine practice. Information on crosslinks can greatly enhance the accuracy of protein structure modeling. Here, we review the current state of the art in modeling protein structures with the assistance of experimentally determined chemical crosslinks within the framework of the 13th meeting of Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction approaches. This largest‐to‐date blind assessment reveals benefits of using data assistance in difficult to model protein structure prediction cases. However, in a broader context, it also suggests that with the unprecedented advance in accuracy to predict contacts in recent years, experimental crosslinks will be useful only if their specificity and accuracy further improved and they are better integrated into computational workflows
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Cryo-EM model validation recommendations based on outcomes of the 2019 EMDataResource challenge
This paper describes outcomes of the 2019 Cryo-EM Model Challenge. The goals were to (1) assess the quality of models that can be produced from cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) maps using current modeling software, (2) evaluate reproducibility of modeling results from different software developers and users and (3) compare performance of current metrics used for model evaluation, particularly Fit-to-Map metrics, with focus on near-atomic resolution. Our findings demonstrate the relatively high accuracy and reproducibility of cryo-EM models derived by 13 participating teams from four benchmark maps, including three forming a resolution series (1.8 to 3.1 Å). The results permit specific recommendations to be made about validating near-atomic cryo-EM structures both in the context of individual experiments and structure data archives such as the Protein Data Bank. We recommend the adoption of multiple scoring parameters to provide full and objective annotation and assessment of the model, reflective of the observed cryo-EM map density
THE THERMOELASTIC PROBLEM FOR A PENNY-SHAPED ANTICRACK WITH HEAT CONDUCTIVITY IN A TRANSVERSELY ISOTROPIC SPACE
An analytical solution of a 3D transversely isotropic thermoelastic problem of a uniform heat flow disturbed by a penny-shaped rigid sheet-like inclusion (anticrack) with some small conductivity is obtained by using the potential theory method. The behaviour of thermal stresses near the edge of the disc is analysed from the standpoint of the mechanics of fracture initiation
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CASP11 statistics and the prediction center evaluation system.
We outline the role of the Protein Structure Prediction Center (predictioncenter.org) in conducting the CASP11 and CASP ROLL experiments, discuss the experiment statistics, and provide an overview of the present CASP infrastructure. The biggest changes compared to the previous CASPs are the implementation of the evaluation system incorporating practically all evaluation measures, statistical tests, and visualization tools historically used by the CASP assessors, the expansion of the infrastructure to incorporate new categories of contact-assisted and multimeric predictions, and the redesign of the assessors web-workspace enabling assessments based on multiple measures for different group categories and target sets. Proteins 2016; 84(Suppl 1):15-19. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc
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CASP13 target classification into tertiary structure prediction categories.
Protein target structures for the Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction round 13 (CASP13) were split into evaluation units (EUs) based on their structural domains, the domain organization of available templates, and the performance of servers on whole targets compared to split target domains. Eighty targets were split into 112 EUs. The EUs were classified into categories suitable for assessment of high accuracy modeling (or template-based modeling [TBM]) and topology (or free modeling [FM]) based on target difficulty. Assignment into assessment categories considered the following criteria: (a) the evolutionary relationship of target domains to existing fold space as defined by the Evolutionary Classification of Protein Domains (ECOD) database; (b) the clustering of target domains using eight objective sequence, structure, and performance measures; and (c) the placement of target domains in a scatter plot of target difficulty against server performance used in the previous CASP. Generally, target domains with good server predictions had close template homologs and were classified as TBM. Alternately, targets with poor server predictions represent a mixture of fast evolving homologs, structure analogs, and new folds, and were classified as FM or FM/TBM overlap
Assessment of contact predictions in CASP12: co-evolution and deep learning coming of age
Following up on the encouraging results of residue-residue contact prediction in the CASP11 experiment, we present the analysis of predictions submitted for CASP12. The submissions include predictions of 34 groups for 38 domains classified as free modeling targets which are not accessible to homology-based modeling due to a lack of structural templates. CASP11 saw a rise of coevolution-based methods outperforming other approaches. The improvement of these methods coupled to machine learning and sequence database growth are most likely the main driver for a significant improvement in average precision from 27% in CASP11 to 47% in CASP12. In more than half of the targets, especially those with many homologous sequences accessible, precisions above 90% were achieved with the best predictors reaching a precision of 100% in some cases. We furthermore tested the impact of using these contacts as restraints in ab initio modeling of 14 single-domain free modeling targets using Rosetta. Adding contacts to the Rosetta calculations resulted in improvements of up to 26% in GDT_TS within the top five structures