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Pipeline for the identification and classification of ion channels in parasitic flatworms

Overview of attention for article published in Parasites & Vectors, March 2016
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Title
Pipeline for the identification and classification of ion channels in parasitic flatworms
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Parasites & Vectors, March 2016
DOI 10.1186/s13071-016-1428-2
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Bahiyah Nor, Neil D. Young, Pasi K. Korhonen, Ross S. Hall, Patrick Tan, Andrew Lonie, Robin B. Gasser

Abstract

Ion channels are well characterised in model organisms, principally because of the availability of functional genomic tools and datasets for these species. This contrasts the situation, for example, for parasites of humans and animals, whose genomic and biological uniqueness means that many genes and their products cannot be annotated. As ion channels are recognised as important drug targets in mammals, the accurate identification and classification of parasite channels could provide major prospects for defining unique targets for designing novel and specific anti-parasite therapies. Here, we established a reliable bioinformatic pipeline for the identification and classification of ion channels encoded in the genome of the cancer-causing liver fluke Opisthorchis viverrini, and extended its application to related flatworms affecting humans. We built an ion channel identification + classification pipeline (called MuSICC), employing an optimised support vector machine (SVM) model and using the Kyoto Encyclopaedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) classification system. Ion channel proteins were first identified and grouped according to amino acid sequence similarity to classified ion channels and the presence and number of ion channel-like conserved and transmembrane domains. Predicted ion channels were then classified to sub-family using a SVM model, trained using ion channel features. Following an evaluation of this pipeline (MuSICC), which demonstrated a classification sensitivity of 95.2 % and accuracy of 70.5 % for known ion channels, we applied it to effectively identify and classify ion channels in selected parasitic flatworms. MuSICC provides a practical and effective tool for the identification and classification of ion channels of parasitic flatworms, and should be applicable to a broad range of organisms that are evolutionarily distant from taxa whose ion channels are functionally characterised.

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Country Count As %
Uruguay 1 4%
Unknown 24 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 5 20%
Professor > Associate Professor 4 16%
Researcher 4 16%
Student > Master 3 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 8%
Other 3 12%
Unknown 4 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 5 20%
Engineering 2 8%
Computer Science 2 8%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 8%
Arts and Humanities 1 4%
Other 7 28%
Unknown 6 24%
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#15,314,867
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#3,373
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