Functional Prediction of Snake Neurotoxins

摘要

Snake neurotoxins are important experimental tool in pharmacological research. Over the years, the number of snake neurotoxin sequences identified is increasing at a very fast pace. However, only a small portion of them are experimentally characterized from more than 200,000 variants estimated to exist in nature. In this paper, we report a systematic functional analysis on snake neurotoxins using a statistical machine learning method - nearest neighbour approach for functional prediction together with a set of rules. Based on this method we built a highly accurate functional prediction tool for putative annotation for snake neurotoxins