Comparison of Algorithms for Prediction of Protein Structural Features from Evolutionary Data.
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ABSTRACT: Proteins have many functions and predicting these is still one of the major challenges in theoretical biophysics and bioinformatics. Foremost amongst these functions is the need to fold correctly thereby allowing the other genetically dictated tasks that the protein has to carry out to proceed efficiently. In this work, some earlier algorithms for predicting protein domain folds are revisited and they are compared with more recently developed methods. In dealing with intractable problems such as fold prediction, when different algorithms show convergence onto the same result there is every reason to take all algorithms into account such that a consensus result can be arrived at. In this work it is shown that the application of different algorithms in protein structure prediction leads to results that do not converge as such but rather they collude in a striking and useful way that has never been considered before.
SUBMITTER: Bywater RP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4786192 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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