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BMCBI
2010
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A global optimization algorithm for protein surface alignment
Background: A relevant problem in drug design is the comparison and recognition of protein binding sites. Binding sites recognition is generally based on geometry often combined w...
Paola Bertolazzi, Concettina Guerra, Giampaolo Liu...
NAR
2000
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The ASTRAL compendium for protein structure and sequence analysis
The ASTRAL compendium provides several databases and tools to aid in the analysis of protein structures, particularly through the use of their sequences. The SPACI scores included...
Steven E. Brenner, Patrice Koehl, Michael Levitt
BMCBI
2010
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Evolutionary rates at codon sites may be used to align sequences and infer protein domain function
Background: Sequence alignments form part of many investigations in molecular biology, including the determination of phylogenetic relationships, the prediction of protein structu...
Pierre M. Durand, Scott Hazelhurst, Theresa L. Coe...
BMCBI
2004
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Using 3D Hidden Markov Models that explicitly represent spatial coordinates to model and compare protein structures
Background: Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) have proven very useful in computational biology for such applications as sequence pattern matching, gene-finding, and structure prediction...
Vadim Alexandrov, Mark Gerstein
BMCBI
2006
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Tools for integrated sequence-structure analysis with UCSF Chimera
Background: Comparing related structures and viewing the structures in the context of sequence alignments are important tasks in protein structure-function research. While many pr...
Elaine C. Meng, Eric F. Pettersen, Gregory S. Couc...