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Previous computational methods for T3S protein prediction have only achieved limited accuracy, and distinct features for effective T3S protein prediction remain to be identified.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Results: In this work, a distinctive N-terminal position-specific amino acid composition (Aac) feature was identified for T3S proteins. A large portion (\u223c50%) of T3S proteins exhibit distinct position-specific Aac features that can tolerate position shift. A classifier, BPBAac, was developed and trained using Support Vector Machine (SVM) based on the Aac feature extracted using a Bi-profile Bayes model. We demonstrated that the BPBAac model outperformed other implementations in classification of T3S and non-T3S proteins, giving an average sensitivity of \u223c90.97% and an average selectivity of \u223c97.42% in a 5-fold cross-validation evaluation. The model was also robust when a small-size training dataset was used. The fact that the position-specific Aac feature is commonly found in T3S proteins across different bacterial species gives this model wide application. To demonstrate the model's application, a genome-wide prediction of T3S effector proteins was performed for Ralstonia solanacearum, an important plant pathogenic bacterium, and a number of putative candidates were identified using this model.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Availability: An R package of BPBAac tool is freely downloadable from: http:\/\/biocomputer.bio.cuhk.edu.hk\/softwares\/BPBAac.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Contact: \u00a0djguo@cuhk.edu.hk<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Supplementary information: \u00a0Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btr021","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2011,1,14]],"date-time":"2011-01-14T04:50:46Z","timestamp":1294980646000},"page":"777-784","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":101,"title":["High-accuracy prediction of bacterial type III secreted effectors based on position-specific amino acid composition profiles"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"27","author":[{"given":"Yejun","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Life Sciences and the State Key Lab for Agrobiotechnology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Qing","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Life Sciences and the State Key Lab for Agrobiotechnology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ming-an","family":"Sun","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Life Sciences and the State Key Lab for Agrobiotechnology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Dianjing","family":"Guo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Life Sciences and the State Key Lab for Agrobiotechnology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2011,1,13]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023012511540714100_B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"e1000376","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.ppat.1000376","article-title":"Sequence-based prediction of type III secreted proteins","volume":"5","author":"Arnold","year":"2009","journal-title":"PLoS pathogens"},{"key":"2023012511540714100_B2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"3","DOI":"10.1016\/j.mib.2008.01.006","article-title":"Type VI secretion: a beginner's guide","volume":"11","author":"Bingle","year":"2008","journal-title":"Curr. 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