Exploring protein domain structure
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Investigating Protein Sequence-structure-dynamics Relationships with Bio3D-web
Published on: July 16, 2017
1Bioinformatics Applications Group, UK MRC Human Genome Mapping Project Resource Centre, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK. jison@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk
Abstract:
The protein databank contains coordinates of over 10,000 protein structures, which constitute more than 25,000 structural domains in total. The investigation of protein structural, functional and evolutionary relationships is fundamental to many important fields in bioinformatics research, and will be crucial in determining the function of the human and other genomes. This review describes the SCOP and CATH databases of protein structure classification, which define, classify and annotate each domain in the protein databank. The hierarchical structure, use and annotation of the databases are explained. Other tools for exploring protein structure relationships are also described.
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