Critical assessment of protein intrinsic disorder prediction

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Intrinsically disordered proteins, defying the traditional protein structure–function paradigm, are a challenge to study experimentally. Because a large part of our knowledge rests on computational predictions, it is crucial that their accuracy is high. The Critical Assessment of protein Intrinsic Disorder prediction (CAID) experiment was established as a community-based blind test to determine the state of the art in prediction of intrinsically disordered regions and the subset of residues involved in binding. A total of 43 methods were evaluated on a dataset of 646 proteins from DisProt. The best methods use deep learning techniques and notably outperform physicochemical methods. The top disorder predictor has Fmax = 0.483 on the full dataset and Fmax = 0.792 following filtering out of bona fide structured regions. Disordered binding regions remain hard to predict, with Fmax = 0.231. Interestingly, computing times among methods can vary by up to four orders of magnitude.

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Necci, M., Piovesan, D., Hoque, M. T., Walsh, I., Iqbal, S., Vendruscolo, M., … Tosatto, S. C. E. (2021). Critical assessment of protein intrinsic disorder prediction. Nature Methods, 18(5), 472–481. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-021-01117-3

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