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A Protocol for Computer-Based Protein Structure and Function Prediction
Published on: November 3, 2011
SCRATCH: a protein structure and structural feature prediction server
J Cheng1, A Z Randall, M J Sweredoski
1Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics, University of California Irvine, CA, USA.
Abstract:
SCRATCH is a server for predicting protein tertiary structure and structural features. The SCRATCH software suite includes predictors for secondary structure, relative solvent accessibility, disordered regions, domains, disulfide bridges, single mutation stability, residue contacts versus average, individual residue contacts and tertiary structure. The user simply provides an amino acid sequence and selects the desired predictions, then submits to the server. Results are emailed to the user. The server is available at http://www.igb.uci.edu/servers/psss.html.
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