Abstract
Motivation: Kinetic measurements have played an important role in elucidating biochemical and biophysical phenomena for over a century. While many tools for analysing kinetic measurements exist, most require low noise levels in the data, leaving outlier measurements to be cleaned manually. This is particularly true for protein misfolding and aggregation processes, which are extremely noisy and hence difficult to model. Understanding these processes is paramount, as they are associated with diverse physiological processes and disorders, most notably neurodegenerative diseases. Therefore, a better tool for analysing and cleaning protein aggregation traces is required. Results: Here we introduce Kfits, an intuitive graphical tool for detecting and removing noise caused by outliers in protein aggregation kinetics data. Following its workflow allows the user to quickly and easily clean large quantities of data and receive kinetic parameters for assessment of the results. With minor adjustments, the software can be applied to any type of kinetic measurements, not restricted to protein aggregation.
Original language | American English |
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Pages (from-to) | 129-130 |
Number of pages | 2 |
Journal | Bioinformatics |
Volume | 34 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1 Jan 2018 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported by the Marie-Curie integration grant [project number: 618806]; BSF [2015056]; ISF [1765/13 and 2629/16]; and HFSP [CDA00064/2014].
Funding Information:
We thankMor Goldenberg, Nufar Edinger and Tal Ram for QA and fruitful discussions. We are grateful to DrMeytal Landau for providing raw data for testing Kfits. This work was supported by the Marie-Curie integration grant [project number: 618806]; BSF [2015056]; ISF [1765/13 and 2629/16]; and HFSP [CDA00064/2014].
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 The Author.