Predicting allergenic proteins using wavelet transform

With many transgenic proteins introduced today, the ability to predict their potential allergenicity has become an important issue. Previous studies were based on either sequence similarity or the protein motifs identified from known allergen databases. The similarity-based approaches, although being able to produce high recalls, usually have low prediction precisions. Previous motif-based approaches have been shown to be able to improve the precisions on cross-validation experiments. In this study, a system that combines the advantages of similarity-based and motif-based prediction is described.