Comparison of disorder/order
predictions by six different methods.
(A) Comparison of NMA–NIA boundary distances, Rg/N, and VSL2b. (B) Comparison of NMA–NIA
boundary distances, Rg/N, and VLXT. Red points: proteins with Rg/N higher than 0.26 (prediction of disorder). Blue
points: proteins with Rg/N lower than 0.26 (prediction of order). Vertical marginal histograms
(orange) are the distribution of the disorder prediction by VSL2b
(A) and by VLXT (B), respectively. Horizontal marginal histograms
shown in the figure are the distribution of NMA–NIA boundary
distances for the target chains. (C) Comparison of two binary classification
of disorder and order with Rg/N. The indications of colored points are the same as (A,B).
(D) Numbers of the predicted disordered chains by different approaches.
The cutoffs for each method are: NMANIA_disorder: NMA–NIA boundary
distance >0; Rg/N_disorder: Rg/N > 0.26; VLXT_disorder:
fraction of predicted disordered residues >0.35 (this threshold
was
proposed in ref (27) but needs further investigation). CH_disorder: distance to the charge-hydropathy
boundary >0; CDF_disorder: numbers of CDF points ≥4.