BMC Bioinformatics

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Assessing the ability of sequence-based methods to provide functional insight within membrane integral proteins: a case study analyzing the neurotransmitter/Na+ symporter family

Dennis R Livesay1*, Patrick D Kidd, Sepehr Eskandari2 and Usman Roshan3

Author Affiliations

1 Department of Computer Science and Bioinformatics Research Center, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC 28262, USA

2 Biological Sciences Department, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA 91768, USA

3 Department of Computer Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102, USA

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BMC Bioinformatics 2007, 8:397 doi:10.1186/1471-2105-8-397

Published: 17 October 2007

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Phylogenetic tree file. This file contains the raw phylogenetic tree file.

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Phylogenetic tree supplementary material. This file contains the phylogenetic tree with bootstrap scores and a list of all experimentally annotated and unannotated leaves.

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Prediction method performance figure. This file contains a plot of accuracy vs. coverage for each prediction method considered. Overall performance values are also provided.

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Prediction summary figure. This file annotates the LeuTAa sequence with the predictions of each unique method. The sequence is color-coded based on the Intersect results.

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Leucine-binding pocket figure. This file contains a figure showing the leucine substrate and the three binding pocked residues that are not predicted by any method used herein.

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Muscle alignment file. This file contains the raw Muscle alignment.

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Alignment supplementary material. This file contains the sum-of-pairs scores for each alignment pair and a series of tables that detail the predictions of each method as a function of alignment input.

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MINER supplemental figures. This file contains supplementary figures associated with MINER.

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Prediction threshold summary. This file contains descriptions of performance as a function of threshold level.

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