Title: Analysis of protein phosphorylation site predictors with an independent dataset

Authors: Abdur R. Sikder, Albert Y. Zomaya

Addresses: International Computer Science Institute, 1947 Center Street, Suite 600, Berkeley, CA 94704, USA. ' School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia

Abstract: Protein phosphorylation plays a fundamental role in most of the cellular regulatory pathways. Experimental detection of protein phosphorylation sites is labour intensive and often limited by the availability and optimisation of enzymatic reactions. The in silico prediction of phosphorylation sites using protein|s primary sequences may provide guidelines for further experimental consideration and interpretation of phosphoproteomic data. An array of such tools exists over the internet and provides the prediction for protein kinase families. We developed an independent dataset to compare the performances of these methods to provide scientists with a better understanding of which method to use for their research.

Keywords: protein phosphorylation sites; prediction; internet; analysis; methods; post-translational; substrate; protein kinase families; active site; algorithms; bioinformatics; cellular regulatory pathways; phosphoproteomic data.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBRA.2009.022461

International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications, 2009 Vol.5 No.1, pp.20 - 37

Published online: 07 Jan 2009 *

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