ParSe 2.0: A web application that enables proteome-scale searches for sequences that drive protein-mediated phase separation
Protein Science(2023)
Abstract
We have developed an algorithm, ParSe, that accurately identifies from the primary sequence those protein regions likely to exhibit physiological phase separation behavior. Originally, ParSe was designed to test the hypothesis that, for flexible proteins, phase separation potential is correlated to hydrodynamic size. While our results were consistent with that idea, we also found that many different descriptors could successfully differentiate between three classes of protein regions: folded, intrinsically disordered, and phase-separating intrinsically disordered. Consequently, numerous combinations of amino acid property scales can be used to make robust predictions of protein phase separation. Built from that finding, ParSe 2.0 uses an optimal set of property scales to predict domain-level organization and compute a sequence-based prediction of phase separation potential. The algorithm is fast enough to scan the whole of the human proteome in minutes on a single computer and is equally or more accurate than other published predictors in identifying proteins and regions within proteins that drive phase separation. Here, we describe a web application for ParSe 2.0 that may be accessed through a browser by visiting [https://stevewhitten.github.io/Parse\_v2\_FASTA][1] to quickly identify phase-separating proteins within large sequence sets, or by visiting [https://stevewhitten.github.io/Parse\_v2\_web][2] to evaluate individual protein sequences.
### Competing Interest Statement
The authors have declared no competing interest.
[1]: https://stevewhitten.github.io/Parse_v2_FASTA
[2]: https://stevewhitten.github.io/Parse_v2_web
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