UniLoc: A universal protein localization site predictor for eukaryotes and prokaryotes

There is a growing gap between protein subcellular localization (PSL) data and protein sequence data, raising the need for computation methods to rapidly determine subcellular localizations for uncharacterized proteins. Currently, the most efficient computation method involves finding sequence-similar proteins (hereafter referred to as similar proteins) in the annotated database and transferring their annotations to the target protein. When a sequence-similarity search fails to find similar proteins, many PSL predictors adopt machine learning methods for the prediction of localization sites. We proposed a universal protein localization site predictor - UniLoc - to take advantage of implicit similarity among proteins through sequence analysis alone. The notion of related protein words is introduced to explore the localization site assignment of uncharacterized proteins. UniLoc is found to identify useful template proteins and produce reliable predictions when similar proteins were not available.

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