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We found that the residues, Glu, His, Ile, Cys, Gln, Asn and Ser, show a significant difference between globular and outer membrane proteins. Based on this information, we have devised a statistical method for discriminating outer membrane proteins from other globular and membrane proteins. Our approach correctly picked up the outer membrane proteins with an accuracy of 89% for the training set of 337 proteins. On the other hand, our method has correctly excluded the globular proteins at an accuracy of 79% in a non-redundant dataset of 674 proteins. Furthermore, the present method is able to correctly exclude \u03b1-helical membrane proteins up to an accuracy of 80%. These accuracy levels are comparable to other methods in the literature, and this is a simple method, which could be used for dissecting outer membrane proteins from genomic sequences. The influence of protein size, structural class and specific residues for discrimination is discussed.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Availability: A program for the discrimination method is available upon request from the corresponding author. The datasets used in this work are available at http:\/\/www.cbrc.jp\/~gromiha\/omp\/dataset.html<\/jats:p><jats:p>Contact: \u00a0michael-gromiha@aist.go.jp<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/bti126","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2004,11,6]],"date-time":"2004-11-06T01:14:14Z","timestamp":1099703654000},"page":"961-968","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":88,"title":["A simple statistical method for discriminating outer membrane proteins with better accuracy"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"21","author":[{"given":"M. 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