Skip to main content
. 2020 Jul 11;17:27. doi: 10.1186/s12014-020-09290-x

Table 3.

Available phosphorylation site and kinase-substrate prediction tools

Tool Last update Version Prediction type Method Kinases/phosphatases Type References
DISPHOS 2004 1.3 Phosphorylation sites Bagged logistic regression 0 Web [54]
PPSP 2006 1.06 Phosphorylation sites of kinases Bayesian decision theory 68 Web [52]
KinasePhos2.0 2007 2.0 Phosphorylation sites of kinases SVM 58 Web [51]
pkaPS 2007 Phosphorylation sites of PKA Scoring function 1 Web|DL [72]
PhoScan 2008 Phosphorylation sites of kinases Scoring function 48 Web|Tool [60]
Phos3D 2009 Phosphorylation sites and some kinase specificity SVM 5 Web [55]
Musite 2010 1 Phosphorylation sites and some kinase specificity SVM 13 Web|DL [62]
PHOSIDA Predictor 2011 3.24 Phosphorylation S and T sites SVM 0 Web [26]
Predikin 2011 Phosphorylation sites of kinases PSSM any Web|DL [53]
GPS-Polo 2012 1.0 Phosphorylation sites of Plk Group-based scoring function PSSM 1 Web|Tool [120]
iGPS 2012 1.0.1 Phosphorylation sites of kinases in vivo GPS with PPI 407 Tool [57]
CEASAR 2013 Kinases for known phosphorylation sites Naïve Bayes 289 DL [56]
HMMpTM 2013 Phosphorylation sites of kinases and topology HMM 9 Web|DL [121]
PKIS 2013 Phosphorylation sites of kinases SVM 56 Web [122]
GPS 2014 5.0 Phosphorylation sites of kinases Group-based scoring function PSSM 464 Web|DL|Tool [61]
NetPhorest 2014 2.1 Phosphorylation sites of kinases ANN and PSSM 244 Web|DL|Tool [58, 65]
NetworKIN 2014 3.0 Phosphorylation sites of kinases in vivo Naïve Bayes with PPI 123 Web|DL|Tool [58, 66]
phos_pred 2014 Predicts phosphorylation sites for kinases Random forest 54 Toola [49]
PhosphoSVM 2014 Phosphorylation sites SVM 0 Web [123]
Ptpset 2014 Dephosphorylation sites of phosphatases KNN 3 Web [124]
jEcho 2015 1.0 Phosphorylation sites of kinases Weight vector 12 Tool [68]
KSP-PUEL 2015 Phosphorylation sites of kinases SVM ensemble 2a Tool [63]
Scansite 2015 4 Kinase motifs in proteins PSSM 70 Web|DL [125]
DAPPLE 2016 2 Phosphorylation sites BLAST 0 Web|DL [126]
iPhos-PseEn 2016 Phosphorylation sites Random forest ensemble 0 Web [127]
PhosphoPICK 2016 Phosphorylation sites of kinases Bayesian network 107 Web|DL [70]
PhosD 2016 Kinase-substrate relationships Probabilistic model 399 DL [128]
MusiteDeep 2017 Phosphorylation sites and some kinase specificity DNN 5 Toola [50]
NetPhos 2017 3.1 Phosphorylation sites and some kinase specificity ANN 17 Web|Toola [59, 71]
PhosphoNET 2017 Phosphorylation sites of kinases PSSM 488 Web [43]
PhosPred-RF 2017 Phosphorylation sites Random forest 0 Web [129]
AKID 2018 Phosphorylation sites of kinases DNN 496 Web|DL|Toola [69]
CapsNet_PTM 2018 Phosphorylation sites and some kinase specificity DNN any Tool [130]
PTM-ssMP 2018 Phosphorylation sites and some kinase specificity SVM 9 Web|DL [131]
Quokka 2018 Phosphorylation sites of kinase families Logistic regression 65 Web|DL [132]
TyrPred 2018 Phosphorylation sites of Tyr kinases Elastic net 15 Web [133]
CoPhosK 2019 Kinases of phosphorylation sites Naïve Bayes 101 Web|Tool [134]
DeepPhos 2019 Phosphorylation sites and some kinase specificity DNN 20 Tool [67]

aIndicates number of trained kinases, but tool can be trained with others

SVM support vector machine, PSSM position specific scoring matrix, GSEA gene set enrichment analysis, ANN artificial neural network, DNN deep neural network, HMM hidden Markov model, PPI protein–protein interaction, KNN K-nearest neighbor

aIndicates tool is not available for all three main operating systems (Linux, Mac, Windows)