PFP is designed to predict GO annotations for a query protein sequence beyond what can be found by searching conventional databases.The PFP algorithm has been shown to increase coverage of sequence-based function annotation more than fivefold by extending a PSI-BLAST search to extract and score GO terms individually and include information from distantly related sequences. It applies a novel data mining tool, the Function Association Matrix (FAM), to score significantly associating pairs of annotations.
last updated December 21, 2007