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Bayesmotif: De Novo Protein Sorting Motif Discovery From Impure Datasets, Jianjun Hu, F. Zhang
Bayesmotif: De Novo Protein Sorting Motif Discovery From Impure Datasets, Jianjun Hu, F. Zhang
Jianjun Hu
Background
Protein sorting is the process that newly synthesized proteins are transported to their target locations within or outside of the cell. This process is precisely regulated by protein sorting signals in different forms. A major category of sorting signals are amino acid sub-sequences usually located at the N-terminals or C-terminals of protein sequences. Genome-wide experimental identification of protein sorting signals is extremely time-consuming and costly. Effective computational algorithms for de novo discovery of protein sorting signals is needed to improve the understanding of protein sorting mechanisms.
Methods
We formulated the protein sorting motif discovery problem as a classification problem …