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Argot2: a large scale function prediction tool relying on semantic similarity of weighted Gene Ontology terms
BACKGROUND: Predicting protein function has become increasingly demanding in the era of next generation sequencing technology. The task to assign a curator-reviewed function to every single sequence is impracticable. Bioinformatics tools, easy to use and able to provide automatic and reliable annota...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3314586/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22536960 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-13-S4-S14 |
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author | Falda, Marco Toppo, Stefano Pescarolo, Alessandro Lavezzo, Enrico Di Camillo, Barbara Facchinetti, Andrea Cilia, Elisa Velasco, Riccardo Fontana, Paolo |
author_facet | Falda, Marco Toppo, Stefano Pescarolo, Alessandro Lavezzo, Enrico Di Camillo, Barbara Facchinetti, Andrea Cilia, Elisa Velasco, Riccardo Fontana, Paolo |
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description | BACKGROUND: Predicting protein function has become increasingly demanding in the era of next generation sequencing technology. The task to assign a curator-reviewed function to every single sequence is impracticable. Bioinformatics tools, easy to use and able to provide automatic and reliable annotations at a genomic scale, are necessary and urgent. In this scenario, the Gene Ontology has provided the means to standardize the annotation classification with a structured vocabulary which can be easily exploited by computational methods. RESULTS: Argot2 is a web-based function prediction tool able to annotate nucleic or protein sequences from small datasets up to entire genomes. It accepts as input a list of sequences in FASTA format, which are processed using BLAST and HMMER searches vs UniProKB and Pfam databases respectively; these sequences are then annotated with GO terms retrieved from the UniProtKB-GOA database and the terms are weighted using the e-values from BLAST and HMMER. The weighted GO terms are processed according to both their semantic similarity relations described by the Gene Ontology and their associated score. The algorithm is based on the original idea developed in a previous tool called Argot. The entire engine has been completely rewritten to improve both accuracy and computational efficiency, thus allowing for the annotation of complete genomes. CONCLUSIONS: The revised algorithm has been already employed and successfully tested during in-house genome projects of grape and apple, and has proven to have a high precision and recall in all our benchmark conditions. It has also been successfully compared with Blast2GO, one of the methods most commonly employed for sequence annotation. The server is freely accessible at http://www.medcomp.medicina.unipd.it/Argot2. |
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spelling | pubmed-33145862012-04-02 Argot2: a large scale function prediction tool relying on semantic similarity of weighted Gene Ontology terms Falda, Marco Toppo, Stefano Pescarolo, Alessandro Lavezzo, Enrico Di Camillo, Barbara Facchinetti, Andrea Cilia, Elisa Velasco, Riccardo Fontana, Paolo BMC Bioinformatics Research BACKGROUND: Predicting protein function has become increasingly demanding in the era of next generation sequencing technology. The task to assign a curator-reviewed function to every single sequence is impracticable. Bioinformatics tools, easy to use and able to provide automatic and reliable annotations at a genomic scale, are necessary and urgent. In this scenario, the Gene Ontology has provided the means to standardize the annotation classification with a structured vocabulary which can be easily exploited by computational methods. RESULTS: Argot2 is a web-based function prediction tool able to annotate nucleic or protein sequences from small datasets up to entire genomes. It accepts as input a list of sequences in FASTA format, which are processed using BLAST and HMMER searches vs UniProKB and Pfam databases respectively; these sequences are then annotated with GO terms retrieved from the UniProtKB-GOA database and the terms are weighted using the e-values from BLAST and HMMER. The weighted GO terms are processed according to both their semantic similarity relations described by the Gene Ontology and their associated score. The algorithm is based on the original idea developed in a previous tool called Argot. The entire engine has been completely rewritten to improve both accuracy and computational efficiency, thus allowing for the annotation of complete genomes. CONCLUSIONS: The revised algorithm has been already employed and successfully tested during in-house genome projects of grape and apple, and has proven to have a high precision and recall in all our benchmark conditions. It has also been successfully compared with Blast2GO, one of the methods most commonly employed for sequence annotation. The server is freely accessible at http://www.medcomp.medicina.unipd.it/Argot2. BioMed Central 2012-03-28 /pmc/articles/PMC3314586/ /pubmed/22536960 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-13-S4-S14 Text en Copyright ©2012 Falda et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Falda, Marco Toppo, Stefano Pescarolo, Alessandro Lavezzo, Enrico Di Camillo, Barbara Facchinetti, Andrea Cilia, Elisa Velasco, Riccardo Fontana, Paolo Argot2: a large scale function prediction tool relying on semantic similarity of weighted Gene Ontology terms |
title | Argot2: a large scale function prediction tool relying on semantic similarity of weighted Gene Ontology terms |
title_full | Argot2: a large scale function prediction tool relying on semantic similarity of weighted Gene Ontology terms |
title_fullStr | Argot2: a large scale function prediction tool relying on semantic similarity of weighted Gene Ontology terms |
title_full_unstemmed | Argot2: a large scale function prediction tool relying on semantic similarity of weighted Gene Ontology terms |
title_short | Argot2: a large scale function prediction tool relying on semantic similarity of weighted Gene Ontology terms |
title_sort | argot2: a large scale function prediction tool relying on semantic similarity of weighted gene ontology terms |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3314586/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22536960 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-13-S4-S14 |
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