Protein secondary structure prediction
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A Protocol for Computer-Based Protein Structure and Function Prediction
Published on: November 3, 2011
1Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, Oxford, UK.
Current Opinion in Structural Biology
|June 1, 1995
Abstract:
The past year has seen a consolidation of protein secondary structure prediction methods. The advantages of prediction from an aligned family of proteins have been highlighted by several accurate predictions made 'blind', before any X-ray or NMR structure was known for the family. New techniques that apply machine learning and discriminant analysis show promise as alternatives to neural networks.
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