title: AUTO-MUTE: web-based tools for predicting stability changes in proteins due to single amino acid replacements.
abstract: Utilizing cutting-edge supervised classification and regression algorithms, three web-based tools have been developed for predicting stability changes upon single residue substitutions in proteins with known native structures. Trained models classify independent mutant test sets with accuracies ranging from 87 to 94%. Attributes representing each mutant protein are based on a computational mutagenesis methodology relying on a four-body statistical potential, illustrating a novel integration of both energy-based and machine learning approaches. The servers are written in PHP and hosted on a Linux platform, and they can be freely accessed online along with detailed data sets, documentation and performance results at http://proteins.gmu.edu/automute.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory for Structural Bioinformatics, Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, George Mason University, 10900 University Blvd. MS 5B3, Manassas, VA 20110, USA. mmasso@gmu.edu
authors.forename: Majid
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Masso
authors.forename: Iosif I
authors.initials: II
authors.lastname: Vaisman
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D019943:Amino Acid Substitution; D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D055598:Chemical Phenomena; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D020407:Internet; D055550:Protein Stability; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012984:Software; D013816:Thermodynamics
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins