NDLI: Detecting small plant peptides using SPADA (Small Peptide Alignment Discovery Application)

Content Provider	Springer Nature : BioMed Central
Author	Zhou, Peng Silverstein, Kevin AT Gao, Liangliang Walton, Jonathan D Nallu, Sumitha Guhlin, Joseph Young, Nevin D
Abstract	Background Small peptides encoded as one- or two-exon genes in plants have recently been shown to affect multiple aspects of plant development, reproduction and defense responses. However, popular similarity search tools and gene prediction techniques generally fail to identify most members belonging to this class of genes. This is largely due to the high sequence divergence among family members and the limited availability of experimentally verified small peptides to use as training sets for homology search and ab initio prediction. Consequently, there is an urgent need for both experimental and computational studies in order to further advance the accurate prediction of small peptides. Results We present here a homology-based gene prediction program to accurately predict small peptides at the genome level. Given a high-quality profile alignment, SPADA identifies and annotates nearly all family members in tested genomes with better performance than all general-purpose gene prediction programs surveyed. We find numerous mis-annotations in the current Arabidopsis thaliana and Medicago truncatula genome databases using SPADA, most of which have RNA-Seq expression support. We also show that SPADA works well on other classes of small secreted peptides in plants (e.g., self-incompatibility protein homologues) as well as non-secreted peptides outside the plant kingdom (e.g., the alpha-amanitin toxin gene family in the mushroom, Amanita bisporigera). Conclusions SPADA is a free software tool that accurately identifies and predicts the gene structure for short peptides with one or two exons. SPADA is able to incorporate information from profile alignments into the model prediction process and makes use of it to score different candidate models. SPADA achieves high sensitivity and specificity in predicting small plant peptides such as the cysteine-rich peptide families. A systematic application of SPADA to other classes of small peptides by research communities will greatly improve the genome annotation of different protein families in public genome databases.
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Page Count	16
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ISSN	14712105
DOI	10.1186/1471-2105-14-335
Journal	BMC Bioinformatics
Issue Number	1
Volume Number	14
Language	English
Publisher	BioMed Central
Publisher Date	2013-11-20
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Bioinformatics Microarrays Computational Biology Computer Appl. in Life Sciences Algorithms Protein family Genome annotation Homology search Gene prediction Computational Biology/Bioinformatics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Molecular Biology Biochemistry Computer Science Applications Applied Mathematics Structural Biology
Journal Impact Factor	2.9/2023
5-Year Journal Impact Factor	3.6/2023

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