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Detection of Enzymes in Metagenomic Data
Smatana, Stanislav ; Martínek, Tomáš (referee) ; Hon, Jiří (advisor)
This thesis presents specification and implementation of a system for detection of enzymes in metagenomic data. The detection is based on a provided enzyme sequence and its goal is to search the metagenomic sample for its novel variants. In order to guarantee that found enzymes truly have the desired catalytic function, the system employs a number of catalytic function verification methods. Their specification, implementation and evaluation is one of the main contributions of this thesis. Experiments have shown, that proposed methods reach sensitivity as high as 89%, specificity of 95%, values of AUC metric above 0.9 and average throughput of 1,203 verifications per second on regular personal computer. Evaluation of the system also led to discovery of a partial sequence of novel haloalkane dehalogenase enzyme in a metagenomic sample from soil. The implementation is able to work on a personal computer as well as on a grid computing environment.
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Search of Related Enzymes
Borko, Simeon ; Smatana, Stanislav (referee) ; Hon, Jiří (advisor)
Millions of new proteins discovered each year cannot be characterized by classical biochemical methods due to their demands of time and cost. Among the unexplored proteins, there may be enzymes useful in both industry and academy, mostly for ecological production of chemical compounds. The result of the thesis is a web application which, based on the input proteins, searches the database for similar proteins. The proteins are filtered using essential residues of the input proteins and marked as putative biocatalysts. Finally, the proteins are annotated so that the user can make an informed decision about which proteins to select for experimental laboratory verification. The developed tool facilitates multi-step analysis and recommends proteins for experimental verification of their enzymatic function. The web interface is freely available at https://loschmidt.chemi.muni.cz/enzymeminer/. The tool was published in the international journal Nucleic Acids Research.
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Search of Related Enzymes
Borko, Simeon ; Smatana, Stanislav (referee) ; Hon, Jiří (advisor)
Millions of new proteins discovered each year cannot be characterized by classical biochemical methods due to their demands of time and cost. Among the unexplored proteins, there may be enzymes useful in both industry and academy, mostly for ecological production of chemical compounds. The result of the thesis is a web application which, based on the input proteins, searches the database for similar proteins. The proteins are filtered using essential residues of the input proteins and marked as putative biocatalysts. Finally, the proteins are annotated so that the user can make an informed decision about which proteins to select for experimental laboratory verification. The developed tool facilitates multi-step analysis and recommends proteins for experimental verification of their enzymatic function. The web interface is freely available at https://loschmidt.chemi.muni.cz/enzymeminer/. The tool was published in the international journal Nucleic Acids Research.
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Detection of Enzymes in Metagenomic Data
Smatana, Stanislav ; Martínek, Tomáš (referee) ; Hon, Jiří (advisor)
This thesis presents specification and implementation of a system for detection of enzymes in metagenomic data. The detection is based on a provided enzyme sequence and its goal is to search the metagenomic sample for its novel variants. In order to guarantee that found enzymes truly have the desired catalytic function, the system employs a number of catalytic function verification methods. Their specification, implementation and evaluation is one of the main contributions of this thesis. Experiments have shown, that proposed methods reach sensitivity as high as 89%, specificity of 95%, values of AUC metric above 0.9 and average throughput of 1,203 verifications per second on regular personal computer. Evaluation of the system also led to discovery of a partial sequence of novel haloalkane dehalogenase enzyme in a metagenomic sample from soil. The implementation is able to work on a personal computer as well as on a grid computing environment.
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