Zhou, Naihui, Jiang, Yuxiang, Bergquist, Timothy R., Lee, Alexandra J., Kacsoh, Balint Z., Crocker, Alex W., Lewis, Kimberley A., Georghiou, George, Nguyen, Huy N., Hamid, Md Nafiz, and others. (2019) The CAFA challenge reports improved protein function prediction and new functional annotations for hundreds of genes through experimental screens. Genome Biology, 20 . Article Number 244. ISSN 1474-760X. (doi:10.1186/s13059-019-1835-8) (KAR id:79143)
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Abstract
Background: The Critical Assessment of Functional Annotation (CAFA) is an ongoing, global, community-driven effort to evaluate and improve the computational annotation of protein function. Results: Here, we report on the results of the third CAFA challenge, CAFA3, that featured an expanded analysis over the previous CAFA rounds, both in terms of volume of data analyzed and the types of analysis performed. In a novel and major new development, computational predictions and assessment goals drove some of the experimental assays, resulting in new functional annotations for more than 1000 genes. Specifically, we performed experimental wholegenome mutation screening in Candida albicans and aeruginosa genomes, which provided us with genome-wide experimental data for genes associated with biofilm formation and motility. We further performed targeted assays on selected genes in Drosophila melanogaster, which we suspected of being involved in long-term memory. Conclusion: We conclude that while predictions of the molecular function and biological process annotations have slightly improved over time, those of the cellular component have not. Term-centric prediction of experimental annotations remains equally challenging; although the performance of the top methods is significantly better than the expectations set by baseline methods in C. albicans and D. melanogaster, it leaves considerable room and need for improvement. Finally, we report that the CAFA community now involves a broad range of participants with expertise in bioinformatics, biological experimentation, biocuration, and bio-ontologies, working together to improve functional annotation, computational function prediction, and our ability to manage big data in the era of large experimental screens.
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| DOI/Identification number: | 10.1186/s13059-019-1835-8 |
| Uncontrolled keywords: | Protein function prediction, Long-term memory, Biofilm, Critical assessment, Community challenge |
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Divisions > Division of Natural Sciences > Biosciences Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science |
| Depositing User: | Alex Freitas |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Dec 2019 13:21 UTC |
| Last Modified: | 05 Nov 2024 12:43 UTC |
| Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/79143 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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Freitas, Alex A..
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Antczak, Magdalena.
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https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1503-1849
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