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An important step is taken towards emulating the protein sorting process by capturing and bringing together biologically relevant information, and addressing the clear need to improve prediction accuracy and localization coverage.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Results: Here we present a novel SVM-based approach for predicting subcellular localization, which integrates N-terminal targeting sequences, amino acid composition and protein sequence motifs. We show how this approach improves the prediction based on N-terminal targeting sequences, by comparing our method TargetLoc against existing methods. Furthermore, MultiLoc performs considerably better than comparable methods predicting all major eukaryotic subcellular localizations, and shows better or comparable results to methods that are specialized on fewer localizations or for one organism.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Availability: \u00a0<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Contact: \u00a0hoeglund@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btl002","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2006,1,21]],"date-time":"2006-01-21T01:32:41Z","timestamp":1137807161000},"page":"1158-1165","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":252,"title":["MultiLoc: prediction of protein subcellular localization using N-terminal targeting sequences, sequence motifs and amino acid composition"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"22","author":[{"given":"Annette","family":"H\u00f6glund","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Division for Simulation of Biological Systems, WSI\/ZBIT, Eberhard Karls University T\u00fcbingen 1 \u00a0 1 \u00a0 \u00a0 Sand 14, D-72076 T\u00fcbingen, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Pierre","family":"D\u00f6nnes","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Division for Simulation of Biological Systems, WSI\/ZBIT, Eberhard Karls University T\u00fcbingen 1 \u00a0 1 \u00a0 \u00a0 Sand 14, D-72076 T\u00fcbingen, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Torsten","family":"Blum","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Division for Simulation of Biological Systems, WSI\/ZBIT, Eberhard Karls University T\u00fcbingen 1 \u00a0 1 \u00a0 \u00a0 Sand 14, D-72076 T\u00fcbingen, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Hans-Werner","family":"Adolph","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biochemistry and Center for Bioinformatics, Saarland University 2 \u00a0 2 \u00a0 \u00a0 D-66041 Saarbr\u00fccken, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Oliver","family":"Kohlbacher","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Division for Simulation of Biological Systems, WSI\/ZBIT, Eberhard Karls University T\u00fcbingen 1 \u00a0 1 \u00a0 \u00a0 Sand 14, D-72076 T\u00fcbingen, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2006,1,20]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023012408203944800_b1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"517","DOI":"10.1006\/jmbi.1997.1498","article-title":"Adaption of protein surfaces to subcellular location","volume":"276","author":"Andrade","year":"1998","journal-title":"J. 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