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ABSTRACT: Motivation
Increasing use of structural modeling for understanding structure-function relationships in proteins has led to the need to ensure that the protein models being used are of acceptable quality. Quality of a given protein structure can be assessed by comparing various intrinsic structural properties of the protein to those observed in high-resolution protein structures.Results
In this study, we present tools to compare a given structure to high-resolution crystal structures. We assess packing by calculating the total void volume, the percentage of unsatisfied hydrogen bonds, the number of steric clashes and the scaling of the accessible surface area. We assess covalent geometry by determining bond lengths, angles, dihedrals and rotamers. The statistical parameters for the above measures, obtained from high-resolution crystal structures enable us to provide a quality-score that points to specific areas where a given protein structural model needs improvement.Availability and implementation
We provide these tools that appraise protein structures in the form of a web server Gaia (http://chiron.dokhlab.org). Gaia evaluates the packing and covalent geometry of a given protein structure and provides quantitative comparison of the given structure to high-resolution crystal structures.Contact
dokh@unc.eduSupplementary information
Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
SUBMITTER: Kota P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3150034 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) 20110623 16
<h4>Motivation</h4>Increasing use of structural modeling for understanding structure-function relationships in proteins has led to the need to ensure that the protein models being used are of acceptable quality. Quality of a given protein structure can be assessed by comparing various intrinsic structural properties of the protein to those observed in high-resolution protein structures.<h4>Results</h4>In this study, we present tools to compare a given structure to high-resolution crystal structu ...[more]