A comprehensive assessment of N-terminal signal peptides prediction methods
Open Access
- 3 December 2009
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Bioinformatics
- Vol. 10 (S15) , S2
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-10-s15-s2
Abstract
Amino-terminal signal peptides (SPs) are short regions that guide the targeting of secretory proteins to the correct subcellular compartments in the cell. They are cleaved off upon the passenger protein reaching its destination. The explosive growth in sequencing technologies has led to the deposition of vast numbers of protein sequences necessitating rapid functional annotation techniques, with subcellular localization being a key feature. Of the myriad software prediction tools developed to automate the task of assigning the SP cleavage site of these new sequences, we review here, the performance and reliability of commonly used SP prediction tools.Keywords
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