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Different modern analytical biochemistry and proteomics methods depend on the isoelectric point as a principal feature for protein and peptide characterization. Protein separation by isoelectric point is a critical part of 2-D gel electrophoresis, a key precursor of proteomics, where discrete spots can be digested in-gel, and proteins subsequently identified by analytical mass spectrometry. Peptide fractionation according to their pI is also widely used in current proteomics sample preparation procedures previous to the LC-MS\/MS analysis. Therefore accurate theoretical prediction of pI would expedite such analysis. While such pI calculation is widely used, it remains largely untested, motivating our efforts to benchmark pI prediction methods.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Results: Using data from the database PIP-DB and one publically available dataset as our reference gold standard, we have undertaken the benchmarking of pI calculation methods. We find that methods vary in their accuracy and are highly sensitive to the choice of basis set. The machine-learning algorithms, especially the SVM-based algorithm, showed a superior performance when studying peptide mixtures. In general, learning-based pI prediction methods (such as Cofactor, SVM and Branca) require a large training dataset and their resulting performance will strongly depend of the quality of that data. In contrast with Iterative methods, machine-learning algorithms have the advantage of being able to add new features to improve the accuracy of prediction.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Contact: yperez@ebi.ac.uk<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Availability and Implementation: The software and data are freely available at https:\/\/github.com\/ypriverol\/pIR.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Supplementary information: \u00a0Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btv674","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,11,15]],"date-time":"2015-11-15T01:38:21Z","timestamp":1447551501000},"page":"821-827","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":73,"title":["Accurate estimation of isoelectric point of protein and peptide based on amino acid sequences"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"32","author":[{"given":"Enrique","family":"Audain","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Proteomics, Center of Molecular Immunology,"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yassel","family":"Ramos","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"2 Department of Proteomics, Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Ciudad de la Habana, Cuba,"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Henning","family":"Hermjakob","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"3 Department European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SD, UK and"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Darren R.","family":"Flower","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"4 School of Life and Health Sciences, Aston University, Aston Triangle, Birmingham, B4 7ET, UK"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yasset","family":"Perez-Riverol","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"3 Department European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SD, UK and"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2015,11,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023020111571822300_btv674-B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"388","DOI":"10.2174\/1568026613666131204113537","article-title":"A survey of molecular descriptors used in mass spectrometry based proteomics","volume":"14","author":"Audain","year":"2014","journal-title":"Curr. 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