Protein informatics towards function identification
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A Protocol for Computer-Based Protein Structure and Function Prediction
Published on: November 3, 2011
Kengo Kinoshita1, Haruki Nakamura
1Graduate School of Integrated Science, Yokohama City University, 1-7-29 Suehiro-cho, Turumi-ku, 230-0045, Yokohama, Japan. kinoshita@tsurumi.yokohama-cu.ac.jp
Abstract:
The study of structural genomics and structural proteomics has determined the tertiary structures of many hypothetical proteins, whose molecular functions could not be understood using conventional methods. In order to infer the geometrical location of the functional site, the biochemical function and the biological function of the hypothetical protein, much effort has been made in protein informatics. The importance of heterogeneous databases and various descriptors of amino acid sequences, tertiary structures and pathways on the proteome scale has been emphasised.
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