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1. Summary


BOCTOPUS2 is a significantly improved topology prediction method for putative transmembrane beta-barrel proteins. BOCTOPUS2 outputs the location and number of the transmembrane beta-strands, the orientation (i.e. facing lipids or facing the barrel pore) of residues predicted in transmembrane beta-strands. BOCTOPUS2 is trained on full Uniprot sequences and can be used to delineate the putative transmembrane barrel region in the full input sequence. This is a major novelty of BOCTOPUS2. Most of the earlier methods are trained on PDB sequences that exclude non-barrel regions making those methods less suitable for large-scale predictions from full sequences.

BOCTOPUS2 is trained on a set of 42 full-length Uniprot sequences of transmembrane beta-barrels with a known 3D structure. It is a two-stage method, in the first stage 4 separate SVMs are used to predict the per-residue location (inner-loop, outer-loop, membrane lipid-facing, membrane pore-facing). A filter is then used to determine the putative beta-barrel region and in the second stage a hidden Markov model (HMM) is used to predict the overall topology. In contrast to BOCTOPUS, BOCTOPUS2 has a simplified HMM-architecture and requires no tuning of transition and emission probabilities, thus making it independent of the data set.



2. Usage


Input to the server is one or several (upto five) amino acid sequence(s) in FASTA format. The user can either paste sequences in the text-area provided, or, alternatively, upload a file containing your sequences.

Example input:
>1qj8A
ATSTVTGGYAQSDAQGQMNKMGGFNLKYRYEEDNSPLGVIGSFTYTEKSRTASSGDYNKN
QYYGITAGPAYRINDWASIYGVVGVGYGKFQTTEYPTYKNDTSDYGFSYGAGLQFNPMEN
VALDFSYEQSRIRSVDVGTWIAGVGYRF



3. Output


The server outputs the topology predictions using BOCTOPUS2 method in plain text format. The predicted topology is also displayed graphically. Additionally, a zip folder with the input sequence, output topology (plain text and graphical representation), the position specific scoring matrix (PSSM) generated and the multiple sequence alignment used to generate the PSSM is also downloadable.



4. References


BOCTOPUS2: Inclusion of dyad-repeat pattern improves topology prediction of transmembrane β-barrel proteins. Sikander Hayat , Christoph Peters, Nanjiang Shu, Kostas D Tsirigos, Arne Elofsson. Bioinformatics, 2016 [PubMed]


5. Contact


Arne Elofsson group

Department for Biochemistry and Biophysics
The Arrhenius Laboratories for Natural Sciences
Stockholm University
SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden

Science for Life Laboratory
Box 1031, 17121 Solna, Sweden

E-mail:   arne@bioinfo.se
Phone:   (+46)-8-16 4672
Fax:   (+46)-8-15 3679