Gianluca Pollastri's group: public servers

Porter 5.0 and PaleAle 5.0

Servers for the prediction of protein secondary structure and relative solvent accessibility. These are recently (2018) retrained, improved versions of the popular Porter and PaleAle servers. In our tests, Porter 5.0 correctly predicts over 84% of residues into the correct secondary structure class, and PaleAle 5.0 predicts over 57% of residues into the correct solvent accessibility class (4-class problem), rising to well over 80% for a simplified 2-class classification.
Articles on Porter and PaleAle 5.0 have been published here (Scientific Reports) and here (Amino Acids).

Brewery 5.0

A single interface for Porter 5.0, PaleAle 5.0, BrownAle 5.0 (prediction of contact density) and Porter+ 5.0 (structural motifs).

CPPpred

Prediction of cell-penetrating peptides. Reference here (Bioinformatics)

PeptideRanker

Ranks peptides by the predicted probability that the peptide will be bioactive. Reference here (PLoS ONE)

Porter, PaleAle 4.0

Servers for the prediction of protein secondary structure and relative solvent accessibility. These are retrained (circa 2013), improved versions of the popular Porter and PaleAle servers. In our tests, Porter 4.0 correctly predicts over 82% of residues into the correct secondary structure class, and PaleAle 4.0 predicts over 56% of residues into the correct solvent accessibility class (4-class problem), rising to over 80% for a simplified 2-class classification.
An article on Porter and PaleAle 4.0 has been published here (Bioinformatics).

SCLpredT

SCLpredT is an enhanced version of SCLpred, in that: it incorporates homology information to proteins of known localization (if the "Use templates" box is ticked..); it is trained on a larger dataset; in has one more output class ("organelle"). A paper on SCLpredT can be read here (SpringerPlus web site).

Distill 2.0

A suite of public servers for the prediction of structural features of proteins. The servers can be accessed all from a single interface which also allows the submission of multiple queries. The server is a much improved version of Distill, according to the CASP10 results.

SCLpred (within the Distill 2.0 interface)

SCLpred is a server for the ab initio prediction of protein subcellular localisation in eukaryotes. The server has three components, trained on proteins from: Animals; Plants; Fungi. The subcellular localisation classes we predict are 4 for Animals and Fungi (Cytoplasm; Mitochondrion; Nucleus; Secretory) and 5 for plants (the same 4 as for Animals and Fungi, plus Chloroplast). The server is based on a new neural network we have developed, and, in our tests, achieves state-of-the-art results, with correct classification rates of approximately 66-68% for plants, 70-76% for fungi and 76-78% for animals.
A paper on SCLpred has been published in the journal Bioinformatics. Access it here.

SCL-Epred (within the Distill 2.0 interface)

SCL-Epred is a general server for the ab initio prediction of protein subcellular localisation in eukaryotes. The server has a single component trained on a representative set from all eukaryotes, which predicts proteins in one of three localizations: secreted; membrane; neither secreted nor membrane. While it works quite well on Animals, Fungi and Plants too, it has some predictive power for other proteins including the often overlooked Chromalveolates, Rhizaria and Excavate supergroups. The server is based on the same neural network model (N-to-1 NN) which powers SCLpred (see link above).
A paper on SCL-Epred is in press in the journal Amino Acids.