Background: Protein domains have long been an ill-defined concept in biology. They are generally described as autonomous folding units with evolutionary and functional independenc...
Ya Zhang, John-Marc Chandonia, Chris H. Q. Ding, S...
Background: Structural alignment is an important step in protein comparison. Well-established methods exist for solving this problem under the assumption that the structures under...
Roberto Mosca, Barbara Brannetti, Thomas R. Schnei...
We consider the problem of identifying common three-dimensional substructures between proteins. Our method is based on comparing the shape of the α-carbon backbone structures of ...
L. Paul Chew, Daniel P. Huttenlocher, Klara Kedem,...
The vast number of expressed sequence tags (ESTs) in public databases provides an important resource for comparative and functional genomics. A variety of methods based on homology...