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DomEx enables domain boundary predictors to detect discontinuous domains by assembling the continuous domain segments. Discontinuous domains are predicted by matching the sequence profile of concatenated continuous domain segments with the profiles from a single-domain library derived from SCOP and CATH, and Pfam. Then the matches are filtered by similarity to library templates, a symmetric index score and a profile-profile alignment score. Compared with our recently developed predictor, ThreaDom, which is the state-of-the-art tool to detect discontinuous-domains, DomEx recalled 26.7% discontinuous domains with 72.7% precision in a benchmark with 29 discontinuous-domain chains, where ThreaDom failed to predict any discontinuous domains. Furthermore, combined with ThreaDom, the method ranked number one among 10 predictors. The source code and datasets are available at https://github.com/xuezhidong/DomEx or http://isyslab.info/DomEx.

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Reference:
Zhidong Xue* , Richard Jang, Brandon Govindarajoo, Yichu Huang, Yan Wang*. Extending Protein Domain Boundary Predictors to Detect Discontinuous Domains. PLOS One .DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0141541