AmylPepPred: Amyloidogenic Peptide Prediction tool

Bioinformation. 2012;8(20):994-5. doi: 10.6026/97320630008994. Epub 2012 Oct 13.

Abstract

We present an efficient computational architecture designed using supervised machine learning model to predict amyloid fibril forming protein segments, named AmylPepPred. The proposed prediction model is based on bio-physio-chemical properties of primary sequences and auto-correlation function of their amino acid indices. AmylPepPred provides a user friendly web interface for the researchers to easily observe the fibril forming and non-fibril forming hexmers in a given protein sequence. We expect that this stratagem will be highly encouraging in discovering fibril forming regions in proteins thereby benefit in finding therapeutic agents that specifically aim these sequences for the inhibition and cure of amyloid illnesses.

Availability: AmylPepPred is available freely for academic use at www.zoommicro.in/amylpeppred.

Keywords: AmylPepPred; Amyloid fibrils; Auto-correlation function; Bio-physio-chemical properties; Support Vector Machine.