SpotOn: High Accuracy Identification of Protein-Protein Interface Hot-Spots

Sci Rep. 2017 Aug 14;7(1):8007. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-08321-2.

Abstract

We present SpotOn, a web server to identify and classify interfacial residues as Hot-Spots (HS) and Null-Spots (NS). SpotON implements a robust algorithm with a demonstrated accuracy of 0.95 and sensitivity of 0.98 on an independent test set. The predictor was developed using an ensemble machine learning approach with up-sampling of the minor class. It was trained on 53 complexes using various features, based on both protein 3D structure and sequence. The SpotOn web interface is freely available at: http://milou.science.uu.nl/services/SPOTON/ .

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Binding Sites
  • Humans
  • Machine Learning
  • Protein Binding
  • Protein Interaction Mapping / methods*
  • Sequence Analysis, Protein / methods*
  • Software*