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iPBA: a tool for protein structure comparison using sequence alignment strategies.: Structural Alphabet Alignment
Abstract : With the immense growth in the number of available protein structures, fast and accurate structure comparison has been essential. We propose an efficient method for structure comparison, based on a structural alphabet. Protein Blocks (PBs) is a widely used structural alphabet with 16 pentapeptide conformations that can fairly approximate a complete protein chain. Thus a 3D structure can be translated into a 1D sequence of PBs. With a simple Needleman-Wunsch approach and a raw PB substitution matrix, PB-based structural alignments were better than many popular methods. iPBA web server presents an improved alignment approach using (i) specialized PB Substitution Matrices (SM) and (ii) anchor-based alignment methodology. With these developments, the quality of ∼88% of alignments was improved. iPBA alignments were also better than DALI, MUSTANG and GANGSTA(+) in >80% of the cases. The webserver is designed to for both pairwise comparisons and database searches. Outputs are given as sequence alignment and superposed 3D structures displayed using PyMol and Jmol. A local alignment option for detecting subs-structural similarity is also embedded. As a fast and efficient 'sequence-based' structure comparison tool, we believe that it will be quite useful to the scientific community. iPBA can be accessed at http://www.dsimb.inserm.fr/dsimb_tools/ipba/.
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https://www.hal.inserm.fr/inserm-00646241
Contributor : Alexandre G. de Brevern <>
Submitted on : Tuesday, November 29, 2011 - 2:58:27 PM
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Contributor : Alexandre G. de Brevern <>
Submitted on : Tuesday, November 29, 2011 - 2:58:27 PM
Last modification on : Tuesday, November 3, 2020 - 11:18:02 AM
Long-term archiving on: : Monday, December 5, 2016 - 4:59:22 AM
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