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BMCBI
2007
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Comparison of protein structures by growing neighborhood alignments
Background: Design of protein structure comparison algorithm is an important research issue, having far reaching implications. In this article, we describe a protein structure com...
Sourangshu Bhattacharya, Chiranjib Bhattacharyya, ...
BMCBI
2007
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SABERTOOTH: protein structural alignment based on a vectorial structure representation
Background: The task of computing highly accurate structural alignments of proteins in very short computation time is still challenging. This is partly due to the complexity of pr...
Florian Teichert, Ugo Bastolla, Markus Porto
BMCBI
2006
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Protein structure similarity from principle component correlation analysis
Background: Owing to rapid expansion of protein structure databases in recent years, methods of structure comparison are becoming increasingly effective and important in revealing...
Xiaobo Zhou, James Chou, Stephen T. C. Wong
BMCBI
2006
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Multipolar representation of protein structure
Background: That the structure determines the function of proteins is a central paradigm in biology. However, protein functions are more directly related to cooperative effects at...
Apostol Gramada, Philip E. Bourne
BMCBI
2006
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Integrating protein structures and precomputed genealogies in the Magnum database: Examples with cellular retinoid binding prote
Background: When accurate models for the divergent evolution of protein sequences are integrated with complementary biological information, such as folded protein structures, anal...
Michael E. Bradley, Steven A. Benner
BMCBI
2008
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Validation of protein models by a neural network approach
Background: The development and improvement of reliable computational methods designed to evaluate the quality of protein models is relevant in the context of protein structure re...
Paolo Mereghetti, Maria Luisa Ganadu, Elena Papale...
BMCBI
2008
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Alignment of protein structures in the presence of domain motions
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...
BMCBI
2008
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MSDmotif: exploring protein sites and motifs
Background: Protein structures have conserved features
Adel Golovin, Kim Henrick
BMCBI
2007
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TAP score: torsion angle propensity normalization applied to local protein structure evaluation
Background: Experimentally determined protein structures may contain errors and require validation. Conformational criteria based on the Ramachandran plot are mainly used to disti...
Silvio C. E. Tosatto, Roberto Battistutta
BMCBI
2007
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Towards a comprehensive structural coverage of completed genomes: a structural genomics viewpoint
Background: Structural genomics initiatives were established with the aim of solving protein structures on a large-scale. For many initiatives, such as the Protein Structure Initi...
Russell L. Marsden, Tony A. Lewis, Christine A. Or...