Mining the Structural Genomics Pipeline: Identification of Protein Properties that Affect High-throughput Experimental Analysis
Structural genomics projects represent major undertakings that will change our understanding of proteins. They generate unique datasets that, for the first time, present a standardized view of proteins in terms of their physical and chemical properties. By analyzing these datasets here, we are able...
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Published in | Journal of molecular biology Vol. 336; no. 1; pp. 115 - 130 |
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Main Authors | , , , , , , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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England
Elsevier Ltd
06.02.2004
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Summary: | Structural genomics projects represent major undertakings that will change our understanding of proteins. They generate unique datasets that, for the first time, present a standardized view of proteins in terms of their physical and chemical properties. By analyzing these datasets here, we are able to discover correlations between a protein's characteristics and its progress through each stage of the structural genomics pipeline, from cloning, expression, purification, and ultimately to structural determination. First, we use tree-based analyses (decision trees and random forest algorithms) to discover the most significant protein features that influence a protein's amenability to high-throughput experimentation. Based on this, we identify potential bottlenecks in various stages of the structural genomics process through specialized “pipeline schematics”. We find that the properties of a protein that are most significant are: (i) whether it is conserved across many organisms; (ii) the percentage composition of charged residues; (iii) the occurrence of hydrophobic patches; (iv) the number of binding partners it has; and (v) its length. Conversely, a number of other properties that might have been thought to be important, such as nuclear localization signals, are not significant. Thus, using our tree-based analyses, we are able to identify combinations of features that best differentiate the small group of proteins for which a structure has been determined from all the currently selected targets. This information may prove useful in optimizing high-throughput experimentation. Further information is available from
http://mining.nesg.org/. |
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ISSN: | 0022-2836 1089-8638 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.jmb.2003.11.053 |