Global InformationList of software to detect low complexity regions in proteins information
Computational methods can study protein sequences to identify regions with low complexity, which can have particular properties regarding their function and structure.
| Name | Last update | Usage | Description | Open source? | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SAPS | 1992 | downloadable / web | It describes several protein sequence statistics for the evaluation of distinctive characteristics of residue content and arrangement in primary structures. | yes | [1] |
| SEG | 1993 | downloadable | It is a two pass algorithm: first, identifies the LCR, and then performs local optimization by masking with Xs the LCRs | yes | [2] |
| fLPS | 2017 | downloadable / web | It can readily handle very large protein data sets, such as might come from metagenomics projects. It is useful in searching for proteins with similar CBRs and for making functional inferences about CBRs for a protein of interest | yes | [3] |
| CAST | 2000 | web | It identifies LCRs using dynamic programming. | no | [4] |
| SIMPLE | 2002 | downloadable web | It facilitates the quantification of the amount of simple sequence in proteins and determines the type of short motifs that show clustering above a certain threshold. | yes | [5] |
| Oj.py | 2001 | on request | A tool for demarcating low complexity protein domains. | no | [6] |
| DSR | 2003 | on request | It calculates complexity using reciprocal complexity. | no | [7] |
| ScanCom | 2003 | on request | Calculates the compositional complexity using the linguistic complexity measure. | no | [8] |
| CARD | 2005 | on request | Based on the complexity analysis of subsequences delimited by pairs of identical, repeating subsequences. | no | [9] |
| BIAS | 2006 | downloadable / web | It uses discrete scan statistics that provide a highly accurate multiple test correction to compute analytical estimates of the significance of each compositionally biased segment. | yes | [10] |
| GBA | 2006 | on request | A graph-based algorithm that constructs a graph of the sequence. | no | [11] |
| SubSeqer | 2008 | web | A graph-based approach for the detection and identification of repetitive elements in low–complexity sequences. | no | [12] |
| ANNIE | 2009 | web | This method creates an automation of the sequence analytic process. | no | [13] |
| LPS-annotate | 2011 | on request | This algorithm defines compositional bias through a thorough search for lowest-probability subsequences (LPSs; Low Probability Sequences) and serves as workbench of tools now available to molecular biologists to generate hypotheses and inferences about the proteins that they are investigating. | no | [14] |
| LCReXXXplorer | 2015 | web | A web platform to search, visualize and share data for low complexity regions in protein sequences. LCR-eXXXplorer offers tools for displaying LCRs from the UniProt/SwissProt knowledgebase, in combination with other relevant protein features, predicted or experimentally verified. Also, users may perform queries against a custom designed sequence/LCR-centric database. | no | [15] |
| XNU | 1993 | downloadable | It uses the PAM120 scoring matrix for the calculation of complexity. | yes | [16] |
| AlcoR | 2022 | downloadable | A compression-based and alignment-free tool for detecting low-complexity regions in biological data | yes | [17] |
For a comprehensive review on the various methods and tools, see.[18]
In addition, a web meta-server named PLAtform of TOols for LOw COmplexity (PlaToLoCo) has been developed, for visualization and annotation of low complexity regions in proteins.[19] PlaToLoCo integrates and collects the output of five different state-of-the-art tools for discovering LCRs and provides functional annotations such as domain detection, transmembrane segment prediction, and calculation of amino acid frequencies. Furthermore, the union or intersection of the results of the search on a query sequence can be obtained.
A Neural Network webserver, named LCR-hound has been developed to predict the function of prokaryotic and eukaryotic LCRs, based on their amino acid or di-amino acid content.[20]
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- ^ Wootton JC, Federhen S (June 2003). "Statistics of local complexity in amino acid sequences and sequence databases". Computers and Chemistry. 17 (2): 149–163. doi:10.1016/0097-8485(93)85006-X.
- ^ Harrison PM (13 Nov 2017). "fLPS: Fast discovery of compositional biases for the protein universe". BMC Bioinformatics. 18 (1): 476. doi:10.1186/s12859-017-1906-3. PMC 5684748. PMID 29132292.
- ^ Promponas VJ, Enright AJ, Tsoka S, Kreil DP, Leroy C, Hamodrakas S, Sander C, Ouzounis CA (Oct 2000). "CAST: an iterative algorithm for the complexity analysis of sequence tracts. Complexity analysis of sequence tracts". Bioinformatics. 16 (10): 915–922. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/16.10.915. PMID 11120681.
- ^ Albà MM, Laskowski RA, Hancock JM (May 2002). "Detecting cryptically simple protein sequences using the SIMPLE algorithm". Bioinformatics. 18 (5): 672–678. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/18.5.672. PMID 12050063.
- ^ Wise MJ (2001). "0j.py: a software tool for low complexity proteins and protein domains". Bioinformatics. 17 (Suppl 1): S288–S295. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/17.suppl_1.s288. PMID 11473020.
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- ^ Shin SW, Kim SM (15 Jan 2005). "A novel complexity measure for comparative analysis of protein sequences from complete genomes". Bioinformatics. 21 (2): 160–170. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/bth497. PMID 15333459.
- ^ Kuznetsov IB, Hwang S (1 May 2006). "A novel sensitive method for the detection of user-defined compositional bias in biological sequences". Bioinformatics. 22 (9): 1055–1063. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btl049. PMID 16500936.
- ^ Li X, Kahveci T (15 Dec 2006). "A Novel algorithm for identifying low-complexity regions in a protein sequence". Bioinformatics. 22 (24): 2980–2987. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btl495. PMID 17018537.
- ^ He D, Parkinson J (1 Apr 2008). "SubSeqer: a graph-based approach for the detection and identification of repetitive elements in low-complexity sequences". Bioinformatics. 24 (7): 1016–1017. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btn073. PMID 18304932.
- ^ Ooi HS, Kwo CY, Wildpaner M, Sirota FL, Eisenhaber B, Maurer-Stroh S, Wong WC, Schleiffer A, Eisenhaber F, Schneider G (Jul 2009). "ANNIE: integrated de novo protein sequence annotation". Nucleic Acids Res. 37 (Web server issue): W435–W440. doi:10.1093/nar/gkp254. PMC 2703921. PMID 19389726.
- ^ Harbi D, Kumar M, Harrison PM (6 Jan 2011). "LPS-annotate: complete annotation of compositionally biased regions in the protein knowledgebase". Database (Oxford). 2011: baq031. doi:10.1093/database/baq031. PMC 3017391. PMID 21216786.
- ^ Kirmitzoglou I, Promponas VJ (1 Jul 2015). "LCR-eXXXplorer: a web platform to search, visualize and share data for low complexity regions in protein sequences". Bioinformatics. 31 (13): 2208–2210. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btv115. PMC 4481844. PMID 25712690.
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- ^ Silva JM, Qi W, Pinho AJ, Pratas D (2022-12-28). "AlcoR: alignment-free simulation, mapping, and visualization of low-complexity regions in biological data". GigaScience. 12. doi:10.1093/gigascience/giad101. ISSN 2047-217X. PMC 10716826. PMID 38091509.
- ^ Mier P, Paladin L, Tamana S, Petrosian S, Hajdu-Soltész B, Urbanek A, Gruca A, Plewczynski D, Grynberg M, Bernadó P, Gáspári Z (2020-03-23). "Disentangling the complexity of low complexity proteins". Briefings in Bioinformatics. 21 (2): 458–472. doi:10.1093/bib/bbz007. ISSN 1467-5463. PMC 7299295. PMID 30698641.
- ^ Jarnot P, Ziemska-Legiecka J, Dobson L, Merski M, Mier P, Andrade-Navarro MA, Hancock JM, Dosztányi Z, Paladin L, Necci M, Piovesan D (2020-07-02). "PlaToLoCo: the first web meta-server for visualization and annotation of low complexity regions in proteins". Nucleic Acids Research. 48 (W1): W77–W84. doi:10.1093/nar/gkaa339. ISSN 0305-1048. PMC 7319588. PMID 32421769.
- ^ Ntountoumi C, Vlastaridis P, Mossialos D, Stathopoulos C, Iliopoulos I, Promponas V, Oliver SG, Amoutzias GD (2019-11-04). "Low complexity regions in the proteins of prokaryotes perform important functional roles and are highly conserved". Nucleic Acids Research. 47 (19): 9998–10009. doi:10.1093/nar/gkz730. ISSN 0305-1048. PMC 6821194. PMID 31504783.