GolgiP: Prediction of Golgi-resident proteins in plants

Abstract

Summary: We present a novel Golgi-prediction server, GolgiP, for computational prediction of both membrane- and nonmembrane-associated Golgi-resident proteins in plants. We have employed a support vector machine-based classification method for the prediction of such Golgi proteins, based on three types of information, dipeptide composition, transmembrane domain(s) (TMDs) and functional domain(s) of a protein, where the functional domain information is generated through searching against the Conserved Domains Database, and the TMD information includes the number of TMDs, the length of TMD and the number of TMDs at the N-terminus of a protein. Using GolgiP, we have made genomescale predictions of Golgi-resident proteins in 18 plant genomes, and have made the preliminary analysis of the © The Author(s) 2010. Published by Oxford University Press.