‘TransMem’: a neural network implemented in Excel spreadsheets for predicting transmembrane domains of proteins
Institut de Biologia Fonamental and Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
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Motivation: Genomic sequences from different organisms, even prokaryotic, have plenty of orphan ORFs, making necessary methods for the prediction of protein structure and function. The prediction of the presence of hydrophobic transmembrane (HTM) stretches is a valuable clue for this.
Results: The program, TransMem, based on a neural network and running on personal computers (either Apple Macintosh or PC, using Excel worksheets), for the prediction and distribution of amino acid residues in transmembrane segments of integral membrane proteins is reported. The percentage of residue predictive accuracy obtained for the set of proteins tested is 93%, ranging from 99.9% for the best to 71.7% for the worst prediction. The segment-based accuracy is 93.6%; 63.6% of the protein set match any of the predicted and observed segment locations.
Availability: TransMem is available upon request or by anonymous ftp: IP address: luz.uab.es, directory /pub/TransMem. It is also placed on the EMBL file server (ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/software/mac/TransMem).
Received on August 19, 1996; revised on December 23, 1996; accepted on January 2, 1997
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