Prediction from protein sequence
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Keywords are terms that you need to understand to follow the lecture. To test your knowledge, try to define and explain these keywords (in a few sentences). If you cannot think of anything to say about a keyword, read up on that topic.
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In the section Exercise we provide Questions and Hands-on tasks that allow you to test and further your knowledge of the given topic. During the exercise session you can ask questions pertaining to the topic (keywords and exercises).
Keywords
- Transmembrane helices
- Biolocial membranes
- Cells, cell compartments
- Disorder, (solvent accessibility)
- Protein function, GO terms
- Subcellular localization
- Hidden Markov model, neural networks, support vector machines
Sources
Excercise
Questions
Hands on tasks
- Implement a simple method to predict transmembrane helices from an amino acid sequence. Assume that every helix is 21 residues long, and a helix is predicted in a window of 21 residues when the sum of the hydrophobicity values in that window is above 4.0. You can use one of the hydrophobicity scales here.
