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Optimization of Synthetic Proteins: Identification of Interpositional Dependencies Indicating Structurally and/or Functionally Linked Residues
Published on: July 14, 2015
New graphic representation of structural parameters of proteins
F Facchiano1, A Facchiano, A Facchiano
1Department of Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, First Faculty of Medicine, Naples, Italy.
Abstract:
A computer program is described that is designed to make the visual inspection of classical plots of protein properties (e.g. hydrophobicity, volume, etc.) as a function of sequence easier. An algorithm written in BASIC language has been used in order to generate a pseudo-tridimensional representation of the desired protein property. The data utilized by the program are arithmetic averages of the selected parameter obtained by using a five-residue window as a shuttle along the given amino acid sequence.
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