Protein long disordered region prediction based on profile-level disorder propensities and position-specific scoring matrixes

Identification of long disordered regions in protein sequence is important for understanding protein function. In this work, a class of novel propensities at profile level is presented, namely, the order profile disorder propensities, which use the evolutionary information of profile for protein long disorder prediction. These propensities, combined with position-specific scoring matrixes, are inputted to the Logistic Regression (LR) for the prediction of protein long disordered regions. In 5-fold cross-validation test, our method can achieve an area of 97.5% under the ROC cure. Testing on a blind-test set, our method is significantly more accurate than several existing disorder predictors.