SFoldRate

Predicts the folding rates for proteins of diverse classes based only on the amino acid sequence of the protein. SFoldRate works even when protein sequences are based on alphabets of only two residue types. The effectiveness of the model can be demonstrated in a jackknife test, in which the coefficients ws of the model omitting one protein were calculated and the folding rate of the omitted protein is computed. The result is significantly better (R ¼ 0.82) than prediction results using chain length (R ¼ 0.69).