Abstract
We describe a novel and potentially important tool for candidate subunit vaccine selection through in silico reverse-vaccinology. A set of Bayesian networks able to make individual predictions for specific subcellular locations is implemented in three pipelines with different architectures: a parallel implementation with a confidence level-based decision engine and two serial implementations with a hierarchical decision structure, one initially rooted by prediction between membrane types and another rooted by soluble versus membrane prediction. The parallel pipeline outperformed the serial pipeline, but took twice as long to execute. The soluble-rooted serial pipeline outperformed the membrane-rooted predictor. Assessment using genomic test sets was more equivocal, as many more predictions are made by the parallel pipeline, yet the serial pipeline identifies 22 more of the 74 proteins of known location.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 285-289 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | Bioinformation |
Volume | 1 |
Issue number | 8 |
Early online date | 5 Dec 2006 |
Publication status | Published - 2006 |
Bibliographical note
This is an open-access article, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, for non-commercial purposes, provided the original author and source are credited.Keywords
- beta barrel transmembrane protein
- prokaryotic membrane proteins
- Bayesian networks
- prediction method
- subcellular location