I-TASSER gateway: A protein structure and function prediction server powered by XSEDE

Wei Zheng1, Chengxin Zhang1, Eric W Bell1

  • 1Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2218, United States.

Future Generations Computer Systems : FGCS
|August 21, 2019
PubMed
Summary

The I-TASSER gateway offers automated protein structure and function prediction, bridging the gap between sequence data and experimental characterization. This computational tool aids researchers by providing reliable structural models and functional insights from protein sequences.

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