SVM-Based Prediction of Propeptide Cleavage Sites in Spider Toxins Identifies Toxin Innovation in an Australian Tarantula

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Wong, Emily S W ^a,b   Hardy, Margaret C ^a   Wood, David ^a   Bailey, Timothy ^a   King, Glenn F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDE; PROPEPTIDE; SPIDER VENOM; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACCURACY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDICTION; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SELENOTYPUS PLUMIPES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; TARANTULA; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; DECISION TREES; MARKOV CHAINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; PROTEOLYSIS; SPIDER VENOMS; SPIDERS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 84880654224     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066279     Document Type: Article

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