JNet Secondary Structure Prediction

Secondary structure prediction methods attempts to infer the likely secondary structure for a protein based on its amino acid composition and similarity to sequences with known secondary structure. The JNet method uses several different neural metworks and decides on the most likely prediction via a jury network.

The function available from the Web Service→Secondary Structure Prediction→JNet Secondary Structure Prediction menu does two different kinds of prediction, dependent upon the currently selected region:

The result of a JNet prediction for a sequence is a new annotated alignment window:

The sequence for which the prediction was made is the first one in the alignment. If a sequence based prediction was made then the remaining sequences in the alignment are the aligned parts of homologs which were used to construct a sequence profile for the prediction. If the prediction was made using a multiple alignment, then the original multiple alignment will be returned, annotated with the prediction.

The annotation bars below the alignment are as follows: