MERIT (Multi-binding rEsidues pRedIcTor)

MERIT is a webserver that identifies multi-binding residues in the protein sequences.

Please follow the three steps below to make predictions:

1. Copy and paste protein sequence into text area

The server accepts single FASTA formatted protein sequence. The sequence length is limited to between 21 and 1000 amino acids, which stems from the limitations of the input tools. Please enter the protein sequence in the following text field.

2. Provide your email address (optional)

Please enter your email address in the following text area or leave it blank. A link to prediction results will be sent to your email address once they are ready.

3. Predict

Click the Run button to launch the prediction.

Materials

README: This file explains format of the dataset files. Click here to download

Training dataset: Click here to download
Validation dataset: Click here to download
Test dataset: Click here to download
200 single-ligand binding test dataset: Click here to download

References

Upon the usage the users are requested to use the following citation:

Zhang J, BASU S, Zhang F, Kurgan L, 2024. MERIT: Accurate Prediction of Multi Ligand-binding Residues with Hybrid Deep Transformer Network, Evolutionary Couplings and Transfer Learning. Journal of Molecular Biology, DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2024.168872

Acknowledgments

We acknowledge with thanks the following software used as a part of this server:

ASAquick - Prediction of protein accessible surface area [PMID:27787824]
HH-suite3-Protein sequence similarity search [PMID:31521110]
PSIPRED - Prediction of protein secondary structures [PMID:10493868]
VSL2B - Prediction of intrinsically disordered residues [PMID:16187360]