A word of caution about biological inference - Revisiting cysteine covalent state predictions

Tüdős, Éva and Mészáros, Bálint and Fiser, András and Simon, István (2014) A word of caution about biological inference - Revisiting cysteine covalent state predictions. FEBS OPEN BIO, 4. pp. 310-314. ISSN 2211-5463

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Abstract

The success of methods for predicting the redox state of cysteine residues from the sequence environment seemed to validate the basic assumption that this state is mainly determined locally. However, the accuracy of predictions on randomized sequences or of non-cysteine residues remained high, suggesting that these predictions rather capture global features of proteins such as subcellular localization, which depends on composition. This illustrates that even high prediction accuracy is insufficient to validate implicit assumptions about a biological phenomenon. Correctly identifying the relevant underlying biochemical reasons for the success of a method is essential to gain proper biological insights and develop more accurate and novel bioinformatics tools. 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of the Federation of European Biochemical Societies. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/).

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