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A Protocol for Computer-Based Protein Structure and Function Prediction
Published on: November 3, 2011
Decoy models for protein structure comparison score normalisation
1Division of Mathematical Biology, National Institute for Medical Research, The Ridgeway, Mill Hill, London NW7 1AA, UK. wtaylor@nimr.mrc.ac.uk
Abstract:
A method is described to construct sets of decoy models that can be used to generate a background score distribution for protein structure comparison. The models are derived directly from the two proteins being compared and retain all the essential properties of the structures, including length, density, shape and secondary structure composition but have different folds. As each comparison involves a pair of proteins of the same length, no explicit normalisation is required to adjust for the length of the proteins being compared. This allows substructure (or domain) matches to score almost equally to the comparison of isolated domains. A normalised probability measure was derived that allows joint family/family comparison. The method was applied to some of the CASP6 models for targets with new folds.
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