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Heat shock proteins (HSPs) are one of the largest groups of molecular chaperones that assist in correct folding of partially folded or denatured proteins, establishment of proper protein conformation and prevention of unalterable aggregation of damaged proteins. Besides chaperonine activities, HSPs are also involved in other functions like modulation of their synthesis, participation in signal transduction pathways, RNA processing etc. HSPs also play vital role in maintaining the overall cellular protein homeostasis. Due to broad range of activities, they have received a considerable attention of the researchers. Keeping in view the wide range of functions of HSPs, we developed this server for prediction of HSPs, their families (HSP20, HSP40, HSP60, HSP70, HSP90 and HSP100) and sub-typpes of DnaJ proteins(Type I, Type II, Type III, Type IV). The ir-HSP achieved higher accuracy as compared to the existing approaches, and thus believed to supplement the existing efforts for annotation of protein sequences.

          Figure Source: HSPIR database

Please Cite:
Meher, P. K., Sahu, T. K., Gahoi, S. and Rao, A. R. (2018). ir-HSP: improved recognition of heat shock proteins, their families and sub-types based on g-spaced di-peptide features and support vector machine. Frontiers in Genetics, 8, 235.